Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Lying
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The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.
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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
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The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?
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A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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