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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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.
KURT VONNEGUTI have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
KURT VONNEGUTWe’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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’.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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 VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTMy life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTWe could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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