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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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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
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Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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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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Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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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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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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