There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
KURT VONNEGUTI was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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