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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
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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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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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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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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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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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He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.
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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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