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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.

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

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  3. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile – Filths savour but themselves
  4. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  5. Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  6. Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  7. It didn’t matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world. – Joseph Fink
  8. O miracle-”thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands! – Georges Bernanos
  9. There is no peace, I’m sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  10. Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say ‘Shut up, I just got here myself’. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  11. …unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet…(from silent moments) – Muse
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  13. Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,Sweet is revenge–especially to women – George Gordon Byron
  14. It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
  15. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
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  20. Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  21. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  22. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  23. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  24. What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  28. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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  34. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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