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.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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 this happened, more or less.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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 we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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