True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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