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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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