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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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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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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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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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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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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
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Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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