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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
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You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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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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My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.
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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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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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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
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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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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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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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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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