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God damn it, you've got to be kind.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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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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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?
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He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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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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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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