Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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