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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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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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That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means outside the herd. imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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