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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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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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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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