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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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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
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Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
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I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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The complicated futility of ignorance.
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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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What's the point of being alive, she said, if you're not going to communicate?
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