Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Science is magic that works.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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