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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.
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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.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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