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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
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I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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