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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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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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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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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
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