Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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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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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 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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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