What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
KURT VONNEGUTCan you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Science is magic that works.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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