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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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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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One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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In this world, you get what you pay for.
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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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