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In this world, you get what you pay for.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
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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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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
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The big show is inside my head.
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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
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I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.
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