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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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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
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No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
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The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.
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The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
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