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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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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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I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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