Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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