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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.
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This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
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