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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia – what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing. What could we do or say that could possibly interest Thee? Nothing. Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. No longer can a fool point to a ridiculous accident of good luck and say, 'Somebody up there likes me.' And no longer can a tyrant say, 'God wants this or that to happen, and anyone who doesn't help this or that to happen is against God.' O Lord Most High, what a glorious weapon is Thy Apathy, for we have unsheathed it, have thrust and slashed mightily with it, and the claptrap that has so often enslaved us or driven us into the madhouse lies slain! " -The prayer of the Reverend C. Horner Redwine .Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep. "Beautiful, " he whispered.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was the free-enterprise way of handling beauty that threatened to get the upper hand.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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What an optimistic animal man is! " said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles! " He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on! ' she cried.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.