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You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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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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Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
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All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
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Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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