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.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Hello 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.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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