To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTYou were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Science is magic that works.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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So, 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.
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