All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The 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.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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