You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTI 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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