Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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