To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Love 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’.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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