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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
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. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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 have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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