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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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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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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
Kurt Vonnegut
There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
