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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
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The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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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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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
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