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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
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I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
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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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in nonsense is strength
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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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The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
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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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