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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
A man without a home can't be lost.
Kurt Vonnegut
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
Kurt Vonnegut
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
Kurt Vonnegut
The big show is inside my head.
Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
Kurt Vonnegut
The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
Kurt Vonnegut
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Kurt Vonnegut
Be fruitful, and multiply.
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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
Kurt Vonnegut
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
Kurt Vonnegut
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
Kurt Vonnegut
Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
Kurt Vonnegut
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
Kurt Vonnegut
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Kurt Vonnegut
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
Kurt Vonnegut