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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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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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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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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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In the water I am beautiful.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
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Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means outside the herd. imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
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