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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means outside the herd. imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
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I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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