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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Peace Activist
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Science Fiction Writer
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We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -' Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
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You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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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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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
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There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
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This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
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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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Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
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