Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
KURT VONNEGUTHello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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