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Kurt Vonnegut Inspirational Quotes (551)

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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
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Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.
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I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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The arts are not a way to make a living.
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She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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Every writer has to write his speech.
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
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In this world, you get what you pay for.
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Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Love is where you find it.
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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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