Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick
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Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick
"I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone."
"I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them."
"People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped."