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Nothing in this book is true. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. View quote
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. View quote
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? View quote
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I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. View quote
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Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. View quote
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. View quote
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. View quote
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You couldn't help that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same. View quote
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. View quote
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on. (Kurt Vonnegut)
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War. View quote
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Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science. View quote
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there. View quote
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My father said "When in doubt, castle." View quote
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees. View quote
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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not. View quote
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Science is magic that works. View quote
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. View quote
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Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again. View quote
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little. (Kurt Vonnegut)
I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful. View quote
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Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!" View quote
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. View quote
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Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful. View quote
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