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More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
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.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
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.
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.
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
