Kurt Vonnegut
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
Kurt Vonnegut
"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."
Kurt Vonnegut
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
Kurt Vonnegut
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
Kurt Vonnegut
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
Kurt Vonnegut
"And so it goes..."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Kurt Vonnegut
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut
"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
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."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Dance Like No One is Watching...
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before...
Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money."
Kurt Vonnegut
"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."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
Kurt Vonnegut
"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
"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable."
Kurt Vonnegut
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
Kurt Vonnegut
"How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Kurt Vonnegut
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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