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.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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