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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here.
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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Love is where you find it.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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Hardly anyone in the world is an American
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
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egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means outside the herd. imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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