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I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.
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Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -' Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
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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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You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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