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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means outside the herd. imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
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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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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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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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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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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 couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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