The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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