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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.
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How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
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See the cat? See the cradle?
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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