If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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.
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