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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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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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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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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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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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In the water I am beautiful.
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You've got to be a good date for the reader.
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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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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.
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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
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