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I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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In 1844, Karl Marx said, Religion is the opiate of the masses. He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, Religion is the aspirin of the people.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
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I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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The Fourteenth Book is entitled, What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: Nothing.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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