I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUTShe hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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