Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
These displaced people need something, and the clergy can’t give it to them-or it’s impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it’s enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn’t enough, and I suspect they’re right.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
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There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'
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These displaced people need something, and the clergy can’t give it to them-or it’s impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it’s enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn’t enough, and I suspect they’re right.
