We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Science is magic that works.
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