The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTWhen I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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 was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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