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.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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