The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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