Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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