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Life is no way to treat an animal.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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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.
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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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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The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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The big show is inside my head.
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