Kurt Vonnegut
American writer
Lived from: 1922 - 2007
Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 11 november 1922 Died: 11 april 2007
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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
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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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This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
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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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We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
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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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You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again
Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)― Kurt Vonnegut
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