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.
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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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 tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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