We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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