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 VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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 sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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