We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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