Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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And I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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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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I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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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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I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
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I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
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But doing that job, surviving it, was like getting a Purple Heart. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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