I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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