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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that involved almost no math at all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“As every married person here knows, love is a rotten substitute for respect.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday

“I can only reply that the secret to success in every human endeavor is total concentration. Ask any great athlete.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne