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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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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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Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
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You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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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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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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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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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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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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