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Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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  2. We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear -œstaying stuck.- We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. – Susan Jeffers
  3. Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can’t we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? – Sarah J Maas
  4. Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about. – Austin Kleon
  5. Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. – Imre Kertsz
  6. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. – Steve Goodier
  7. Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia – Earl Warren
  8. I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  9. Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
  10. Dear Government… I’m going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to. – Stieg Larsson
  11. When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
  12. You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
  13. Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. – William Faulkner
  14. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  19. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  20. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  21. The mind reels. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  22. When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  23. 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
  24. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. 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
  30. She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn’t know. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. 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
  32. A woman’s not a woman till the pills wear off. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. 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
  34. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. 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
  37. 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
  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
  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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