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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
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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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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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