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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
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