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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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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
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The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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You are better than you think.
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