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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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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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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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In the water I am beautiful.
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
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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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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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The arts are not a way to make a living.
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