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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
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Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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Love is where you find it.
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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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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
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She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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