Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.
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I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
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I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Science is magic that works.
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
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So it goes.
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Busy, busy, busy.
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How embarrassing to be human.
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'I liked him very much,' said Constant.'The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,' said Beatrice.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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You know, in a way I wish I hadn’t met you two. It’s much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.
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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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Wars would be a lot better, I think, if guys would say to themselves sometimes 'Jesus - I'm not going to do that to the enemy. That's too much.'
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
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What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that flickered out.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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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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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.