And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUTLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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