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 VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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All this happened, more or less.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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