We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Science is magic that works.
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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 worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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