We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
KURT VONNEGUTTing-a-ling mother fucker.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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?
KURT VONNEGUTWho 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 Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Science is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
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All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTAll this happened, more or less.
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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.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
KURT VONNEGUTA purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
KURT VONNEGUTIf somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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