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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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You become who you pretend to be.
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The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
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It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
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... life, by definition, is never still.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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