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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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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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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
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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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The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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