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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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Every writer has to write his speech.
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
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