Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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Do 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?
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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