To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTWhat 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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 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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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