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.
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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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