| Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. |
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| 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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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. |
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| People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. |
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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| 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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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. |
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| One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. |
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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. |
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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. |
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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| 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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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. |
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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| I want to stay 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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| 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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- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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