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.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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 was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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All this happened, more or less.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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