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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.
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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.
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