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Life is no way to treat an animal.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
-Kurt Vonnegut

What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist
-Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete.
-Kurt Vonnegut

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
-Kurt Vonnegut

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.
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All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
-Kurt Vonnegut

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

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
-Kurt Vonnegut

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
-Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
-Kurt Vonnegut

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
-Kurt Vonnegut

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