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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
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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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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
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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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You become who you pretend to be.
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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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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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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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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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