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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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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTLove 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’.
KURT VONNEGUTThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
KURT VONNEGUTOne 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.
KURT VONNEGUTI 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 VONNEGUTCan you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
KURT VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
KURT VONNEGUTA purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
KURT VONNEGUTYou were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTHello 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.
KURT VONNEGUTLaughter 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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