Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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'The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,' she said, 'would be to not be used for anything by anybody.' ... 'Thank you for using me,' she said to Constant, 'even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.'
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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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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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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Things die. All things die.
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When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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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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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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'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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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
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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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Fish! Fish! Fish!
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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.
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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.