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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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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
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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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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
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I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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