Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
KURT VONNEGUTIf I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘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.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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