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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
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A man without a home can't be lost.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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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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