If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Science is magic that works.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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