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Unhappy failures need not apply.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
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My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
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Love is where you find it.
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
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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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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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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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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
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There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
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