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.
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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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