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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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