We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTThe last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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