Kurt Vonnegut

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

#cleaning #exhaustion #frustration #i #laugh

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#around #different #earth #fart #here

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#happened #less #more #more or less #much

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anyway #beethoven #compose #done #example

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

#close #edge #going #i #i can

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#careful #must #pretend

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blessing #brought #dead #mixed #very

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#church #come #course #daydream #god

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#friend #nature #need #people #sure

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#called #did #john #jonah #me