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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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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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In the water I am beautiful.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
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