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Kurt Vonnegut

"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."

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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."

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"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

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"There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death."

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"Adaptation is the key to survival."

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"Never let your pride get in the way of you asking for help when you are in desperate need of something. We have all been helped before in one way or the other. Life is about surviving. So you must do whatever that's morally justified you possibly can to survive."

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"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."

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"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

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"The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!"

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"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
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"I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
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"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
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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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"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."
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"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."
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"...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit."
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"Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."
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"The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman."
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"Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are."
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