"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

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Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

Kurt Vonnegut

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes

“One tends to write beyond what's needed”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?" "If you like." "Oh," he said, "I like.”
“There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.”
“Why canâ€™t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. Youâ€™ll find what youâ€™re trying to say in him- as youâ€™ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! Thatâ€™s beautiful. But I wasnâ€™t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so letâ€™s drink up and forget it. Thatâ€™s more my idea.”
“Depression is a choice.”
“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”
“The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm”

Source : Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.60, Random House
“And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.”

Source : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.

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