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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
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Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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