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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
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One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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