Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.
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Related 148She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to you have to do something wi... NANETTE VONNEGUT Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus... CHRIS CRUTCHER In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ... JESS WALTER I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa... LOUIS SACHAR I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. LORDE When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct... SISI MODISE Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur. JOHN CONNOLLY They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. KURT VONNEGUT As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. CHRISTOPHER MOORE In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm... OSCAR GOODMAN Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. KURT VONNEGUT If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim... CHUCK PALAHNIUK These are war veterans who fought for their country, and the army also has war veterans in it, ROBERT MUGABE A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy D... JAMES DARREN I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. I... DAVE GROHL She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up b... PETE DOCTER Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. KURT VONNEGUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of ... KURT VONNEGUT JR. The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi... KURT VONNEGUT These Civil War data represent a rare opportunity to look at medical records of war veterans over th... JUDITH PIZARRO My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ... CHARLES J. SHIELDS Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.'... BOB ELLIOTT The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, a... DAVID DAVIS The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, a... DAVID DAVIS I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. LANA TURNER That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres... J.D. SALINGER Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ... SUSAN CARTWRIGHT I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes adve... JEF I. RICHARDS Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must... CLIFF STEARNS We have been deceived that religiosity is equal to personal relationship with God. SUNDAY ADELAJA We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. DOC HASTINGS A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect ... MALCOLM GLADWELL I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. LANA TURNER Tiek uzskatīts, ka pēc apkaušanas jāvalda kapa klusumam, un valda jau arī, tikai putni klaigā. KURT VONNEGUT Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world. L.M. MONTGOMERY The shock and the disappointment that the parents were feeling, we were feeling right along with the... HEIDI EWING War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman who... SAMUEL HA-NAGID Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work wit... DEYTH BANGER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam vetera... GEORGE H. W. BUSH What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ... MARK VONNEGUT I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they g... JANE FONDA The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally ... DAHLIA LITHWICK I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Families should not be deceived, ... [These] shows all contain crude and raunchy dialogue with sex-t... BRENT BOZELL Families should not be deceived. [These] shows all contain crude and raunchy dialogue with sex-theme... BRENT BOZELL Almost any veterans of foreign wars can tell you war stories, especially after a couple of beers. GENE WESTFALL A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at... OMARI HARDWICK What can you say except Kurt was awesome? What their defense was giving us was the shot in the corne... GREG MCKENZIE When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was cour... JAMES JONES Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on... PATRICK LENCIONI Had those calculations been properly done there would have been a larger background personnel and su... BRUCE BABBITT Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong,... STEVE BUYER God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time SUNDAY ADELAJA Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likel... RUSSELL M. NELSON The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived b... ERIC HOFFER The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves
are easily deceived b... ERIC HOFFER There is the feeling that police did not properly do their job, WALTER RODGERS I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' be... ANDREW CARROLL Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because repl... GEORGE ANNAS The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men w... J. ANTHONY LUKAS There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... JONATHAN EDWARDS We should wake up every day pretending we just survived a close brush with death and enjoy the feeli... DONALD LYNN FROST The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how;
the Rhetorician can prove that he ... THOMAS CARLYLE There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. KURT VONNEGUT JR. What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It... KURT VONNEGUT Everyone in this world is fed with different ideas from the time they were born. Its almost impossib... BALA Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia. PAWAN MISHRA Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for ... HAROLD HOLZER War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and s... MARGARET MITCHELL The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing ... CLARA ZETKIN Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but... KURT VONNEGUT They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL [...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic o... JAMES K. MORROW There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own ex... KARL SHAPIRO It devastated their lives and they worked very hard to keep their marriage together. They were both ... LISA HUGGARD They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which ev... ANNA GODBERSEN If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly wh... KAREN LUELLEN It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and ... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON A Tribute to All Veterans
"All Veterans bear the scars of war, some have lost a limb, or carry piece... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people r... BUDDY VALASTRO We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, &... JOHN GREEN Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emo... RICK RIORDAN We did learn a lot of lessons from the Vietnam veterans experience and we were much quicker at getti... FRANCES MURPHY And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelle... PETER CAMERON Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. JOAN DIDION ...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exact... TONY PARSONS It's almost pointless to even write a check for that. BRIAN MEADOWS It's like a war they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses... GHULAM VHORA It's like a war they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses... GHULAM VHORA It's like a war -- they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses... GHULAM VHORA It's like a war - they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses ... GHULAM VHORA Where you are with what you have, what you can do. DHARM BABU
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One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poe... KURT VONNEGUT JR. My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ... KURT VONNEGUT Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been... KURT VONNEGUT If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y... KURT VONNEGUT There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. KURT VONNEGUT I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. KURT VONNEGUT I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know... KURT VONNEGUT If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. KURT VONNEGUT Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic... KURT VONNEGUT What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin... KURT VONNEGUT Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ... KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h... KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an... KURT VONNEGUT I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin... KURT VONNEGUT Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ... KURT VONNEGUT What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c... KURT VONNEGUT The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled... KURT VONNEGUT Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe... KURT VONNEGUT ... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc... KURT VONNEGUT The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi... KURT VONNEGUT We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend. KURT VONNEGUT I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver... KURT VONNEGUT I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o... KURT VONNEGUT We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. KURT VONNEGUT Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo... KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have... KURT VONNEGUT There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste... KURT VONNEGUT There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. KURT VONNEGUT I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par... KURT VONNEGUT Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. KURT VONNEGUT Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu... KURT VONNEGUT There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser... KURT VONNEGUT Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but... KURT VONNEGUT It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. KURT VONNEGUT We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol... KURT VONNEGUT Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. KURT VONNEGUT Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag... KURT VONNEGUT Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem... KURT VONNEGUT I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f... KURT VONNEGUT True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr... KURT VONNEGUT What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f... KURT VONNEGUT Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since... KURT VONNEGUT