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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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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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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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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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