There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
("Breakfast of Champions")
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.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.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
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Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones - to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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