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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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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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Love is where you find it.
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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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In this world, you get what you pay for.
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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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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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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