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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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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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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
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Never index your own book.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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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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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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