Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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 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.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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