I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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