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мои любимые Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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.


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.


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.


Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.


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.


There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.


Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.


Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.


1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.


We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.


How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.


A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

(KURT VONNEGUT)