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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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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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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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.
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The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy.
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I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.
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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.
