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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
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Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
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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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