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.
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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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