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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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.