I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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So, 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.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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