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83c29f3	Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight of a bubble from the lips.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7419597	The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke along.		concupiscence nostrils smoke smoking	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
861cfbc	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.		congregationalist unitarian utterly-indifferent god dodo presbyterian church	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7894aa6	The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.		trombone violin statue nude sculpture	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
e2fd090	What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3183313	Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?		inspirational	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
9b64f04	Today we do. On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments-like today at the zoo. Isn't this a nice moment?" "Yes."			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
a241587	As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.		war patriotism	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
39bfdc5	There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like, "Poo-tee-weet?"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
9dc7b52	There is no why.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1346f87	Listen - on the tenth night the peg was pulled out of the hasp on Billy's boxcar door, and the door was opened. Billy Pilgrim was lying at an angle on the corner-brace, self-crucified, holding himself there with a blue and ivory claw hooked over the sill of the ventilator. Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit think gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. This l..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
abd302c	Vi rendete conto che tutta la grande letteratura - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Addio alle armi, La lettera scarlatta, Il segno rosso del coraggio, l' Iliade e l' Odissea, Delitto e castigo, la Bibbia e The Charge of the Light Brigade di Tennyson - parla di che fregatura sia la vita degli esseri umani? (Non e liberatorio che qualcuno lo dica chiaro e tondo?)		literature life inspirational	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
5dd5721	No trouble. There really isn't a heck of a lot to the job.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2711a6e	Is Doctor Proteus on?" said Kroner's secretary. "Doctor Kroner is in." "Just a moment," said Katharine. "Doctor Proteus, Doctor Kroner is in and will speak to you." "All right, I'm on." "Doctor Proteus is on the line," said Katharine. "Doctor Kroner, Doctor Proteus is on the line." "Tell him to go ahead," said Kroner. "Tell Doctor Proteus to go ahead," said Kroner's secretary. "Doctor Proteus, please go ahead," said Katharine. "This is Paul..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
083b0fb	Sooner or later someone's going to catch the imagination of these people with some new magic. At the bottom of it will be a promise of regaining the feeling of participation, the feeling of being needed on earth--hell, dignity. The police are bright enough to look for people like that, and lock them up under the antisabotage laws. But sooner or later someone's going to keep out of their sight long enough to organize a following." Paul"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
9e8bf6d	A huge fireplace and Dutch oven of fieldstone filled one wall. Over them hung a long muzzle-loading rifle, powder horn, and bullet pouch. On the mantel were candle molds, a coffee mill, an iron and trivet, and a rusty kettle. An iron cauldron, big enough to boil a missionary in, swung at the end of a long arm in the fireplace, and below it, like so many black offspring, were a cluster of small pots. A wooden butter churn held the door open,..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
5166ed5	go shoot a bear. Concentrating hard on the illusion, Paul was able to muster a feeling of positive gratitude for Anita's presence, to thank God for a woman at his side to help with the petrifying amount of work involved in merely surviving.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
546a2a3	The television cameras dollied and panned about him like curious, friendly dinosaurs, sniffing and peering.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
73c12e6	job left vacant two weeks ago by death--the managership of the Pittsburgh Works. "How gay can a party get?"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
22aab83	Halyard yawned, and was annoyed to think that Lynn, who had just read "order out of chaos" as "order out of koze," made three times as much money as he did. Lynn, or, as Halyard preferred to think of him, Planck, hadn't even finished high school, and Halyard had known smarter Irish setters. Yet, here the son-of-a-bitch was, elected to more than a hundred thousand bucks a year!"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
c056cf4	And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics and government lived side by side, but touched almost nowhere.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
e66b888	Whatever we've said, friends, we're saying still-- such as it was, such as it is, such as it will be			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
586daaf	She quieted, and turned away under his stare. Inadvertently, he'd gained the upper hand. He had somehow communicated the thought that had bobbed up in his thoughts unexpectedly: that her strength and poise were no more than a mirror image of his own importance, an image of the power and self-satisfaction the manager of the Ilium Works could have, if he wanted it. In a fleeting second she became a helpless, bluffing little girl in his though..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2865cf8	myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen, who were proud of fighting pure evil at the time." This"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
54d444e	The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3856c86	Better to be nothing than a blind doorman at the head of civilization's parade. And			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
a3e8691	Since all the property is undamaged, has the world lost anything it loved?			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
e17ca31	Only his dog had been along. Now Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak existed as wave phenomena--apparently pulsing in a distorted spiral with its origin in the Sun and its terminal in Betelgeuse.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
e7cc675	Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
c96cfc5	What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us," he went on. "First the atomic bomb. Now this." "Trap?" I echoed wonderingly. They looted your public and corporate treasuries, and turned your industries over to nincompoops," he said. "Then they had your Government borrow so heavily from us that we had no choice but to send over an Army of Occupation in business suits. Never before has the Ruling Class of a country found a way to stick othe..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7e90700	Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
c90aac6	For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors--mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder. Objectively, know-how and world law were getting their long-awaited chance to turn earth into an altogether pleasant and convenient place in which to sweat out Judgment Day. Paul			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
6bd284e	There's something about war that brings out greatness. I			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3f9ca00	The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors, and in those of the foreman, who alone was without a lunchbox. A			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
28ae905	archprophet			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
c896609	The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever. "But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1bc338e	Me and Mike, ve vork in mine. Holy shit, ve have good time. Vunce a veek ve get our pay. Holy shit, no vork next day.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7761f37	the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines.		truth satire	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
13e8b26	If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At another"			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4ebaf31	be true to yourself, and you can't be false to anybody else, and			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
e675010	Did that really happen?" said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. She hadn't had even one baby yet. She used birth control."			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
71dc327	They went Indian file. First came the scouts, clever, graceful, quiet. They had rifles. Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and a trench knife in the other. Last came Billy Pilgrim, empty-handed, bleakly ready for death. Billy was preposterous - six feet and three inches tall, with a chest and shoulders like a box of kitchen matches. He had no helmet, no overcoat, no we..			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
d7c1df1	Rented a tent, a tent, a tent; Rented a tent, a tent, a tent. Rented a tent! Rented a tent! Rented a, rented a tent.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
b269f7f	I wonder about turtles.			Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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