Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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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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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
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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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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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Busy, busy, busy.
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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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I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. … Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual … but everything is sexual … but alcohol.
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How embarrassing to be human.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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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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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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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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'We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party.'
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Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.
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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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All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.
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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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So it goes.