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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
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I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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