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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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In the water I am beautiful.
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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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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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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 what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--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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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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The big show is inside my head.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.
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