Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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