When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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 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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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