The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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