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.
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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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All this happened, more or less.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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