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.
KURT VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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 tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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