All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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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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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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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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