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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
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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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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.
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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
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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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How embarrassing it is to be human.
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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.
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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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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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Every writer has to write his speech.
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
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