Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTAmericans, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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