If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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