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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.
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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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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
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Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
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We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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