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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
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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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