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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.

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
Funny, Smile, Laughter
FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter, Hate, Thinking
Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter, Frustration, Thinking
"Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter, Tears, Doe

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter, Air, Cities
Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

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