I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

—Kurt Vonnegut

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About Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty years; further works have been published since his death.

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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

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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

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class is running the country.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

—Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan

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More quotations tagged with “happiness”

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

—H. L. Mencken

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I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

—J. D. Salinger

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more… and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

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