Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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