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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
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It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.
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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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kar.a.bek.i.an (n.) (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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