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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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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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