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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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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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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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