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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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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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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. 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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