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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
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Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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