1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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    If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

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    I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for – to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

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    I wish you’d help me look into a more interesting problem – namely, my sanity.

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    I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that’s not saying much.

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    Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo.

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    And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

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    If you can’t write clearly, you probably don’t think nearly as well as you think you do.

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