Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Fate
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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We Bokonists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon '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 point in The Books of Bokonon he tells us, 'Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.' By that he means that a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries. It is as free form as an amoeba.
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So it goes.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.