78 ordspråk av Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. föddes den 11 november 1922
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 There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

 Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

 True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

 Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God

 We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

 We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

 We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

 We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

 We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

 We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.

 We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently...in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time...We had fought something which was totally obscene.

This was very bad for us... One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity...has become our curse today.

 Well, to admire the hell out of Jesus Christ or of everyone who speaks well. And, well my grandfather said is-- if-- what Jesus said was marvelous. What does it matter whether he was God or not? And it doesn't matter. So this is a human being who spoke extremely well, and we humanists listened.

 What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

 What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.


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