And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Science is magic that works.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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