We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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