Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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 couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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