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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.
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We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
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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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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
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... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! 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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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
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You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing an anti-war book?… I say, 'why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful
By Kurt Vonnegut
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
By Kurt Vonnegut
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I donÆt know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president
By Kurt Vonnegut
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.
By Kurt Vonnegut
The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative
By Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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People have to talk about something just to keep their good 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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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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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
By Kurt Vonnegut
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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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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