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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
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Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
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Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -' Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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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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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
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