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.
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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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