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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

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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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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
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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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Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
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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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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
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My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
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