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.
KURT VONNEGUTIf 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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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