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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
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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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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
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Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
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Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -' Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
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I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
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I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.
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