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You are better than you think.
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 want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
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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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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
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As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
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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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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ...The Sermon on the Mount, sir. That's important.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
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In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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Never index your own book.
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