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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.
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See the cat? See the cradle?
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.
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Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
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We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
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