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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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