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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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