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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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In the water I am beautiful.
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We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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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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Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.
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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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