Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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