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#1

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

#2

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#3

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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#4

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

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#5

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: college, semicolons, writing

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#6

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: hindsight, regret

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#7

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#8

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#9

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#10

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

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#11

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#12

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#13

“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#14

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: syllogism

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#15

“The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: future, hope, mankind

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#16

“As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#17

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: learning

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#18

“On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#19

“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#20

“I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: existential, photos

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#21

“I could carve a better man out of a banana.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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#22

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
― Oliver Sacks

tags: naturalist

401 likes

#23

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: photography

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#24

“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: art, news, novelty, photography, shock

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#25

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.

Photographs are.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: life, moments, photography

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#26

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: heaviness-of-time, silence

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