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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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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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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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