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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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The Fourteenth Book is entitled, What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: Nothing.
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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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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The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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