I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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