We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUTTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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