And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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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 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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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