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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Advice category:
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
We are here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Creativity category:
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Disappointment category:
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Earth category:
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Ego category:
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Emotion category:
How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Freedom category:
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? (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Growth category:
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Health category:
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the History category:
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Humanity category:
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Humour category:
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Information category:
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Innocence category:
-from a Rodgers & Hart song, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered from Pal Joey...
I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Integrity category:
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Knowledge category:
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, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Love category:
Make love when you can. It's good for you. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Nature category:
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Play category:
I tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Priorities category:
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Questions category:
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Reality category:
This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Risk category:
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. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Sadness category:
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. 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. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Silence category:
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Struggle category:
-Bluebeard...
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.' (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Subject category:
Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Thinking category:
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Travel category:
Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Universe category:
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Wisdom category:
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - From the Writing category:
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
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