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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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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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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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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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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
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