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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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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.
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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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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
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One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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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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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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