Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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’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 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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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