I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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