I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUTSo 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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