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And what is literature, Rabo, he said, but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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