If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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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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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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