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kar.a.bek.i.an (n.) (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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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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The complicated futility of ignorance.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for 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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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
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Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ...The Sermon on the Mount, sir. That's important.
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