All Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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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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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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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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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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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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