Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.
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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 asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college.'Yale,' he said.I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plantation Owners' Tech.''I don't get it,' he said.'I had to ask her to explain it myself,' I said. 'She said Yale was where plantation owners learned how to get the natives to kill each other instead of them.'
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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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So let’s give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That’ll teach bin Laden a lesson he won’t soon forget.
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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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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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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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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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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
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Hi Ho
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When you're dead you're dead.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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The controls were anything but a hunch-player’s delight in a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.
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Fish! Fish! Fish!
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
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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.