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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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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
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If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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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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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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Every writer has to write his speech.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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