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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
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I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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