We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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