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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
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