If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Hello 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.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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