Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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 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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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 have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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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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