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You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?
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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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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
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It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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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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The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
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The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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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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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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