"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." -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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"Go into the arts, I’m not kidding…" Kurt Vonnegut

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• "But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs…" – Kurt Vonnegut OC
• Just joined the military and found this quote on the side of a helmet; "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" – Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend to be… ~Kurt Vonnegut

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• "Another flaw in the human character…"-Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend to be… ~Kurt Vonnegut

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"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." – Kurt Vonnegut

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"Thomas Jefferson…a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians…" – Kurt Vonnegut – OC

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• “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde

"I want to stand. . ." – Kurt Vonnegut

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• Hi. Since it’s appeared here a few times, I’m Iain Thomas and I wrote "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness…" and if you’d like to, you can read about the book/project it comes from.
• “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’" – Kurt Vonnegut

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• "If I like chocolate it won’t surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I’ve got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you’d think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money…" — John Cleese

‘And I asked myself about the present…’ Kurt Vonnegut

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"Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones." – Kurt Vonnegut OC

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