To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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