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Living Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
- The arts are not a way to make a living,
- 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?
- All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on…
- How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
- Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will…
- The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
- He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
- Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the…
- I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want…
- I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
- Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
- I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
- All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
- The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
- Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
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