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'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but

'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

Kurt Vonnegut
Pain, Hate, Real
"Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

Kurt Vonnegut
Pain, Invites, Train
Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

Kurt Vonnegut
Pain, Struggle, Artist
Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Kurt Vonnegut
Pain, Thinking, Thank God

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Kurt Vonnegut
Pain, Writing, Race
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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