Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
KURT VONNEGUTWe’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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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