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More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
