We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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 only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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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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