Thirteen Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
01. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
02. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
03. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
04. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
05. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
06. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
07. 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’.
08. 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.
09. History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
10. Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
11. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
12. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
13. 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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