You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTThe nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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