And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUTThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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