If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTLaughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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