And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUTHello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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 was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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