Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTI have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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