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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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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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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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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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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
Kurt Vonnegut
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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