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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
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I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.
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