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Instead Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties,…
- I wish we had all been born birds instead.
- The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from…
- I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies,…
- Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
- People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places…
- So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to…
- The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization…
- There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
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- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
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- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
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