Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTWe could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Science is magic that works.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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