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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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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.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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