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The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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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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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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