Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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, 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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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