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Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, un

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Illusion
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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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Crying
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Age
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

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Laughter

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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Laughter

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

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Laughter

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