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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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