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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - KURT VONNEGUT
History
Surprises
KURT VONNEGUT
Merely
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC ― kurt vonnegut
God Quotes
Epitaph
Existence
KURT VONNEGUT
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
― Kurt Vonnegut
LifeChanging
Dancing
Lessons
KURT VONNEGUT
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Responsibility
Steps
Turns
KURT VONNEGUT
Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Life
Wells
KURT VONNEGUT
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Twists
KURT VONNEGUT
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Nuts
President
Done
KURT VONNEGUT
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.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Doctors
Barns
Want
KURT VONNEGUT
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Time
Nice
Smart
KURT VONNEGUT
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Two
Trout
Purpose
KURT VONNEGUT
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Stupid
Men
Lovely
KURT VONNEGUT
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Atheist
Thinking
People
KURT VONNEGUT
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Animal
Thinking
Environmental
KURT VONNEGUT
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Funny
Mad
Water
KURT VONNEGUT
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.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Country
War
Book
KURT VONNEGUT
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Jesus
Ideas
Progress
KURT VONNEGUT
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Insane
Sane
Persons
KURT VONNEGUT
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Civilization
Ideas
Germany
KURT VONNEGUT
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
― Kurt Vonnegut
GoodNight
PositiveThinking
Anxiety
KURT VONNEGUT
Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
― Kurt Vonnegut
Waiting
Miracle
Bills
KURT VONNEGUT
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