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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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 think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.
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The big show is inside my head.
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I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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