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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
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There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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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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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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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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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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The complicated futility of ignorance.
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