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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
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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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I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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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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Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
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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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I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.
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You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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