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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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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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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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I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
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I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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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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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
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I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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