So, 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 VONNEGUTCan you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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 was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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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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