She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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