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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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There 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.
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