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You know Ђ' we've had to imagi...

You know Ђ' 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 the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God Ђ'' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Maturity is a bitter disappoin...

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

We could have saved the Earth ...

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Laughter and tears are both re...

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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Most writers are not quick-wit...

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

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Life happens too fast for you ...

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. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Be careful what you pretend to...

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

The highest possible form of t...

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

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I have this disease late at ni...

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Vietnam was a country where Am...

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

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Thank God for novelists. Thank...

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

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I paraphrase Aristotle: If you...

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

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Humor is a way of holding off ...

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

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Most things in this world donВ...

Most things in this world donВґt work, aspirin do.

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Enjoy your body, use it every ...

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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I think, therefore I am, there...

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

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I saw the destruction of Dresd...

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

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My father said, 'When in doubt...

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

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Think of what a paradise this ...

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

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As for myself: I had come to t...

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

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