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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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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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I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.
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Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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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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In 1844, Karl Marx said, Religion is the opiate of the masses. He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, Religion is the aspirin of the people.
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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 youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.
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