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The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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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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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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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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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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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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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
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