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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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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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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
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Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
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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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Here is a lesson in writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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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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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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