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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
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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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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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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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Never index your own book.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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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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You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
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There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
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