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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7460/">Quotes by <em>Vonnegut Jr., Kurt</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt · America · 0 fans >>
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"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt · Illusion · 3 fans >>
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"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."

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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt · Intelligence and Intellectuals · 1 fans >>
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

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"The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth."

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"If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too. "

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"Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe."

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"We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend."

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"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

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