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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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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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