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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
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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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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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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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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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