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Inspirational Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

53 Inspirational quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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Vonnegut paints life as a series of surprise lessons, like a dance choreographed by fate. He points out that we often think we’re smarter and kinder than we really are. He also reminds us that love can arrive early, yet it brings a lot of complexity.

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I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,

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We are what we pretend to be.

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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

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I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,

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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

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What memories for mud to have.

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There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

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We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

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Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they…

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“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't…

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“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply…

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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

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There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs…

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“He watched his brother find peace of mind through psychiatry. That’s why he won’t have anything to do with it. I don’t…

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“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very…

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“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters,…

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What a bummer it is to be a human being.

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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

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Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

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The big show is inside my head,

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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

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The arts are not a way to make a living,

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If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

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I wish we had all been born birds instead.

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Love is where you find it.

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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

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The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

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“Billy got off his lounge chair now, went into the bathroom and took a leak. The crowd went wild.”

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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

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“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.”

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to…

“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that…

“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a…

“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent…

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,…

“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty…