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 VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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There 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.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Science is magic that works.
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