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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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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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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
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The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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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 two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
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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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