Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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