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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTWhen I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
KURT VONNEGUTThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
KURT VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
KURT VONNEGUTIf your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTDo 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?
KURT VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUTI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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