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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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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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You become who you pretend to be.
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We're here on Earth to fart around
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I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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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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