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Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut: Proverb

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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Kurt Vonnegut: Proverb

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again

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Kurt Vonnegut: Observations

Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

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Kurt Vonnegut: Miscellaneous

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
(Tombstone of Billy Pilgrim, a character from Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’)

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