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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The arts are not a way to make a living.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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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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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
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Hardly anyone in the world is an American
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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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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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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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in nonsense is strength
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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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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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