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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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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
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George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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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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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
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I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
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