Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Busy, busy, busy.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
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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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'I tell you, Mr. Constant,' he said genially, 'it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.'
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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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'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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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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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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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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'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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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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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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'I liked him very much,' said Constant.'The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,' said Beatrice.
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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 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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How embarrassing to be human.
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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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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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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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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.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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So it goes.
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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.