Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
KURT VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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