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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut's Popular Quotes

You become who you pretend to be.

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

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Be fruitful, and multiply.

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Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smart…

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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

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