Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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 is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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