Kurt Vonnegut

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Preface (p. xi)

  • Health

• History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

  Slapstick (1976), Ch. 48

  • Education

• The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.

  Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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