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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed. (Kurt Vonnegut)
I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. View quote
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So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this. View quote
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Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books. View quote
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It can make quite a difference not just to you but to humanity: the sort of boss you choose, whose dreams you help come true. Hitler dreamed of killing Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, mental defectives, believers in democracy, and so on, in industrial quantities. View quote
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I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy. View quote
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We Bokonists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. View quote
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My brother got his doctorate in 1938, I think. If he had gone to work in Germany after that, he would have been helping to make Hitler's dreams come true. View quote
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You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell. View quote
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The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore. View quote
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break! (Kurt Vonnegut)
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. View quote
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day. View quote
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. View quote
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. View quote
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. View quote
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. View quote
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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. View quote
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I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. (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. View quote
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1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Democracy owed its life to know-how. View quote
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