To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTDo 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?
KURT VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTYou were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTThe nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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.
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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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