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Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for – to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“The greying east brightened, metamorphosed to pink, then red, and then the giant ball of fire rose out of the blackened hills. Across the desolation lay supreme indifference, the casualness of night and another day, and yet the secret intimacy of those hills, their silent consoling wonder, made death a thing of no great importance.”

-Jon Fante, Ask the Dust
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tags awe, death, imagery, long, nature

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