All Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut
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