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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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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
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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 feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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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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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
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