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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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 keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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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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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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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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Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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