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.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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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.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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