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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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She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.
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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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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
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Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
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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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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
Kurt Vonnegut
Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
Kurt Vonnegut
Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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