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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
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