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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The Fourteenth Book is entitled, What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: Nothing.
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A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
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I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.
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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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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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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
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I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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You've got to be a good date for the reader.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
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