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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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