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.
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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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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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 is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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 only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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