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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
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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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Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
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Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.
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You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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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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The big show is inside my head.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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