Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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My father said 'When in doubt, castle.'
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There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive?The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.
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Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:WE COULD HAVE SAVED ITBUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAPOnly he didn't say 'doggone.''
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'
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He held up his watch to sunlight, letting it drink in the wherewithal that was to solar watches what money was to Earth men.
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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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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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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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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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Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.
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Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.
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Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
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Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.