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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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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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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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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 complicated futility of ignorance.
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You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
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All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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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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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
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