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.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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