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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  2. All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the diseases. – Dada Bhagwan
  3. Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans. – Dennis Prager
  4. Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  5. History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. – Dan Brown
  6. Look around you at the people you’ve been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear. – April White
  7. Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  9. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  10. There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  11. 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
  12. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  13. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  14. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  15. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  16. When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  17. Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  18. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  19. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  20. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  21. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  22. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  23. Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  24. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn’t know. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can’t live without a culture anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. A woman’s not a woman till the pills wear off. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  34. And Castle nodded sagely. ‘So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn’t agree – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. 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
  36. One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  40. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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