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There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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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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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
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Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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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.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
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You've got to be a good date for the reader.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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