Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
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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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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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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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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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My father said 'When in doubt, castle.'
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
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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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History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
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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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How embarrassing to be human.
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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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Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.
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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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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
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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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Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.