{"id":4322,"date":"2013-09-04T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:35:36","slug":"15-wonderful-quotes-by-kurt-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"15 wonderful quotes by Kurt Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<w:UseFELayout\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0cm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">We all need more of the great, provocative musings from American author, the masterful Kurt Vonnegut. His off-kilter perspective on life breathes vitality into our whacky, modern world and those unintelligentable questions we are faced to grapple with. More importantly, his sensitive treatment of the human condition provides us with important guideposts for a healthy and happy life. Here are 15 wonderful quotes that should be committed to memory: <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, &#8216;If this isn&#8217;t nice, I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">We must be careful about what we pretend to be.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">Many people need desperately to receive this message: &#8216;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.&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">That is my principal objection to life, I think: It&#8217;s too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can&#8217;t get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia;\">I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. 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