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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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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
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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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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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