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 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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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