Science is magic that works.
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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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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’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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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