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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
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They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
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Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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