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Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.
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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
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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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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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War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.
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In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
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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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