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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
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That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.
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Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
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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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The big show is inside my head.
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
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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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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.
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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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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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