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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
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I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
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The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
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We're here on Earth to fart around
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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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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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In this world, you get what you pay for.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
Kurt Vonnegut
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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