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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. (Kurt Vonnegut)
I have to say this in defense of humankind: No matter in what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got there. View quote
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What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail. View quote
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. View quote
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I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done. View quote
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You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again. View quote
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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. View quote
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How old is the Universe? It is one half-second old, but the half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. View quote
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Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve. View quote
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Maybe God has let everybody who ever lived be reborn - so he or she can see how it ends. View quote
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Give me knowledge or give me death! (Kurt Vonnegut)
Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. View quote
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This book is my fiftieth-birthday present to myself. View quote
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What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. View quote
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. View quote
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I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. View quote
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I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. View quote
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People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. View quote
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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. View quote
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I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break! View quote
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They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon. View quote
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The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. View quote
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Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. View quote
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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. View quote
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