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You become who you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
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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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We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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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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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
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