Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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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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In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.
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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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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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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
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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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Things die. All things die.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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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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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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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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Nothing in this book is true.
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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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Fish! Fish! Fish!
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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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Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.