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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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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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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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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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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
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The complicated futility of ignorance.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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