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"45 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 November 1922. Died: 11 April 2007 | Writer |

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Earth Valuable Most Work
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Class Country Discover High
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Be Careful Careful Must Pretend
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art Arts Badly Bearable
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Any Call How Long
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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.

Afterwards Both Cleaning Exhaustion
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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.

Anything Blind Job Kingdom
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Before Beware Finds Hard
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Cheap Could Earth Saved
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Back Blessing Brought Dead
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

About Church Come Course
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Anything Bitter Could Disappointment
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Big Biggest Perhaps Place
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Enemy Friend Nature Need
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Center Close Edge Going
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Again Beings Cancer Communities
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Gives Ours Planet Poor
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Anybody Around Different Earth
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Afternoon Concern Late May
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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.

About Anything Boxes Case
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Brain Crowning Evolution Far
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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.

About Anyway Beethoven Compose
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Extremely Implications Moral Scientists
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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Been Being Being Funny Distressed
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Am Artists Arts Been
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Charge Good Made Most
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Bad Bad Ones Good Lies
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

About All Writers Because Environment
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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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.

Almighty God God Almighty Hand
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Enough Everybody Just Look
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Never index your own book.
Book Never Own Your
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Science is magic that works.

Magic Science That Works
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

About Asked Deep How
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Certainly Going Look People
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes & Sayings