One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
KURT VONNEGUTI can have oodles of charm when I want to.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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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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