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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.
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I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
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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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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.
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