All Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
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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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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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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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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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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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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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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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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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