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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
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She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
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A man without a home can't be lost.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
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I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ...The Sermon on the Mount, sir. That's important.
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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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