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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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... life, by definition, is never still.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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