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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
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After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
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Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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