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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Love is where you find it.
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The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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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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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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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
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You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: 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 time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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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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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
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He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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