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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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