Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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