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 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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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 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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Science is magic that works.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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