American - Author | November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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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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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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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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