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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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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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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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