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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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 wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.
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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
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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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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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