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.
KURT VONNEGUTIf I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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All this happened, more or less.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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