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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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