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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Love is where you find it.
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Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
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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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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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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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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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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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