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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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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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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.
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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. 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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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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