All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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