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Trying Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
- Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
- We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
- My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
- I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
- There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass…
- The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the…
- Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
- 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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- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
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