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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
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The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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You are better than you think.
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The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
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I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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