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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
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As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
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The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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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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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
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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 only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
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Love is where you find it.
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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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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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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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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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
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