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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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