Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Fear
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
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When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.