Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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All this happened, more or less.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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