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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
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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Death Hope Life Myself
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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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
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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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
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.
KURT VONNEGUT

Existence Library Myself Ourselves
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain

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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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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