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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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Love is where you find it.
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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
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After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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