If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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