Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
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It may surprise you to learn that I take a certain pride, no matter how foolishly mistaken that pride may be, in making my own decisions for my own reasons.
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Doctor Paul Proteus, son of a successful man, himself rich with prospects of being richer, counted his material blessings. He found that he was in excellent shape to afford integrity.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: 'Make me young, make me young, make me young!'
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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All through the day I'm so confident. That's why I'm such a good salesman, you know? I have confidence, and I look like I have confidence, and that gives other people confidence.
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America's soldiers are being treated … like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
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He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.
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What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
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To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
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I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
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You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.