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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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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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And what is literature, Rabo, he said, but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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