If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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