Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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