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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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In 1844, Karl Marx said, Religion is the opiate of the masses. He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, Religion is the aspirin of the people.
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She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
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