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Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
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People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.
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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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