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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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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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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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