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.
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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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