All this happened, more or less.
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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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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.
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