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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.
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More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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.
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.
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
