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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
«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.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
«One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut