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.
KURT VONNEGUTThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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And 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.
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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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