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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
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That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
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People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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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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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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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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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
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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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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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The big show is inside my head.
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