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As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
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 lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?
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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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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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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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