If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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