Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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