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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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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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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
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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 Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
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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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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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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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