Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Things die. All things die.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, 'There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.'
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When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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We've sure come a long way since then. Sometimes I wish we hadn't. I hate H-bombs and the Jerry Springer show.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
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'The hell with the human race!' said Beatrice.'You’re a member of it, you know,' said Rumfoord.'Then I’d like to put in for a transfer to the chimpanzees!' said Beatrice. 'No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.'
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Fish! Fish! Fish!
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.