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.
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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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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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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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