If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUT
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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.
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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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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.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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