We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

—Mark Vonnegut

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About Mark Vonnegut

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Mark Vonnegut (born May 11, 1947) is an American pediatrician and author. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut. He is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. He described himself in the preface to his 1975 book as "a hippie, son of a counterculture hero, BA in...

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

—Billy Crystal

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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense . . . was that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion demanded that they should burn none at all.

—Maurice Maeterlinck

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—Ursula K. Le Guin

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It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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