When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Science is magic that works.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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