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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
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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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Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
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In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.
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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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