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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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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
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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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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
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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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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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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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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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