A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
KURT VONNEGUTIf I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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