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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
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People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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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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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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