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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
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I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
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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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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
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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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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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Be fruitful, and multiply.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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