True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTMy life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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