Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), an American writer and humorist, gained renown for his satirical and darkly humorous novels during a career spanning over 50 years. Born in Indianapolis, he enlisted in the US Army during World War II and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden as a prisoner. Post-war, he married and adopted his sister’s children. Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago while working as a reporter. His first novel, “Player Piano” (1952), was followed by critically acclaimed works like “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969), which became a commercial success amid the Vietnam War. Vonnegut’s later career featured autobiographical essays and collections, including “A Man Without a Country” (2005). After his death, he was celebrated as a significant contemporary writer and dark humor commentator on American society. His son published unpublished works in “Armageddon in Retrospect” (2008), and “Complete Stories” (2017) compiled Vonnegut’s short fiction, solidifying his legacy in literature.
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
1. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
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2. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
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3. “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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4. “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
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5. “The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”
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6. “Science is magic that works.”
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7. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
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8. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
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9. “If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.”
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10. “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
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11. “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”
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12. “If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
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13. “And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
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14. “To be is to do – Socrates To do is to be – Sartre Do Be Do Be Do – Sinatra.”
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15. “Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
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16. “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
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17. “No moral value is greater than humanity.”
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18. “Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
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19. “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
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20. “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
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21. “Unannounced changes in life’s itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.”
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22. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
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23. “The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.”
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24. “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
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25. “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
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26. “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”
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27. “Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.”
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28. “Be fruitful, and multiply.”
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29. “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
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30. “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
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31. “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
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32. “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
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33. “The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
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34. “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
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35. “You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.”
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36. “Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.”
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37. “Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.”
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38. “Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.”
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39. “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
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40. “Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.”
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41. “Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.”
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42. “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
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43. “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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44. “New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
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45. “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”
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46. “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
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47. “If you can’t write clearly, you probably don’t think nearly as well as you think you do.”
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48. “Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.”
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49. “What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.”
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50. “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
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51. “Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.”
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52. “Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
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53. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
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54. “I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”
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55. “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
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56. “So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
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57. “Love is where you find it.”
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58. “Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.”
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59. “No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
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60. “The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.”
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61. “Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We’ve destroyed our planet.”
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62. “Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.”
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63. “When everything was beautiful and nothing hurt…”
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64. “When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here.”
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65. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
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66. “We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
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67. “I wish we had all been born birds instead.”
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68. “You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be – is actually who you are!”
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69. “We are here for no purpose unless we can invent one.”
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70. “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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71. “Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
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72. “I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”
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73. “If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
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74. “There is no peace, I’m sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.”
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75. “I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.”
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76. “I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.”
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77. “The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.”
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78. “Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.”
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79. “The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.”
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80. “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
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81. “There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
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82. “Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
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83. “The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.”
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84. “Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.”
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85. “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”
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86. “Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.”
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87. “Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”
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88. “All this happened, more or less.”
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89. “Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.”
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90. “Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow…”
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91. “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.”
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92. “This is a nation tragedy, of course – that we’ve changed from a society to an audience.”
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93. “A man without a home can’t be lost.”
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94. “You become who you pretend to be.”
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95. “The champagne was dead. So it goes.”
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96. “Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.”
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97. “That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
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98. “The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.”
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99. “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
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100. “Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
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101. “Most kids can’t afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.”
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102. “Everything about life is a joke. Don’t you know that?”
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103. “Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”
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104. “If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”
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105. “Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
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106. “Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.”
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107. “Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.”
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108. “Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”
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109. “What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It’s a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.”
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110. “Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet.”
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111. “We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
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112. “People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.”
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113. “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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114. “Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.”
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115. “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
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116. “A nice thing about war not that anything about war is nice, I guess is that while it’s going on and you’re in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.”
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117. “I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”
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118. “How embarrassing it is to be human.”
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119. “But she did look back, and I love her for that because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
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120. “The economy is a thoughtless weather system.”
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121. “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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122. “Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.”
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123. “Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.”
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124. “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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125. “If somebody says “I love you” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? “I love you, too.””
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126. “How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
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127. “In this world, you get what you pay for.”
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128. “And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
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129. “If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”
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130. “To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.”
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131. “If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, ‘Kurt is up in heaven now.’ That’s my favorite joke.”
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132. “What a bummer it is to be a human being.”
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133. “Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.”
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134. “Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.”
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135. “A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.”
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136. “Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules – and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
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137. “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
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138. “You can’t teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.”
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139. “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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140. “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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141. “The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”
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142. “I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for – to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”
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143. “Goodbye, blue Monday.”
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144. “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.”
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145. “Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
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146. “Please – a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
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147. “Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
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148. “Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.”
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149. “He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
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150. “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
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151. “No art is possible without a dance with death.”
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152. “If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.”
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153. “Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.”
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154. “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
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155. “Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.”
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156. “The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”
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157. “You are pooped and demoralized,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course, it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”
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158. “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
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159. “There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
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160. “Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.”
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161. “The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.”
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162. “We’d been apart so long – I’d been dead so long,” she said in English. “I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.” “My life is nothing but room for you.” I said. “It could never be filled by anyone but you.”
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163. “Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.”
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164. “You can’t fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.”
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165. “Any scientist who can’t explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.”
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166. “Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.”
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167. “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”
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168. “A lot of critics think I’m stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.”
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169. “How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
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170. “Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
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171. “I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise.”
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172. “If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.”
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173. “What is my definition of jazz? “Safe sex of the highest order.”
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174. “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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175. “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”
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176. “Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”
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177. “It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.”
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178. “Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.”
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179. “My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.”
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180. “I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I’m doing good, and then I’m doing good for know I’m doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.”
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181. “Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.”
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182. “The complicated futility of ignorance.”
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183. “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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184. “History! Read it and weep!”
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185. “Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”
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186. “Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.”
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187. “If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?”
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188. “What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don’t mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.”
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189. “When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.”
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190. “A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”
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191. “There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.”
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192. “Truth can be really powerful stuff if you’re not expecting it.”
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193. “Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
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194. “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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195. “If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.”
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196. “If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.”
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197. “During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.”
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198. “As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.”
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199. “I urge you to please notice when you are happy.”
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200. “One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
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