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.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut in Cold Turkey (10 May 2004)
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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I want to stay 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.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut in Cold Turkey (10 May 2004)
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