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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.
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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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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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