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... life, by definition, is never still.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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The Fourteenth Book is entitled, What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: Nothing.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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