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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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And what is literature, Rabo, he said, but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
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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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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.
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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
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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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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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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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They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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