Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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