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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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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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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here.
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I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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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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I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
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He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
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