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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.
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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.
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One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
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