How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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