The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTLove is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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