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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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.
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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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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