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.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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 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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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