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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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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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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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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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Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
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I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
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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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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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