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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Science is magic that works.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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