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 VONNEGUTThere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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