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Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustio

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

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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. – Kurt Vonnegut

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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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