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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
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Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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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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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
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You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
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That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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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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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
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