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- Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
- Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
- Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
- Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Novel 'Hocus Pocus' 1990
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V
- How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
- I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
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