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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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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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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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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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Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
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We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
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...Skyscraper National Park
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
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