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 VONNEGUTIf your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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 a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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