Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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