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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
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I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.
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