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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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In the water I am beautiful.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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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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You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
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There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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