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.
KURT VONNEGUTI 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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