If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Science is magic that works.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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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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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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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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