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?
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Science is magic that works.
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All this happened, more or less.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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