When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUTI have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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