Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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