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Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
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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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If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
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The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
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That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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