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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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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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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
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This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
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You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
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Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
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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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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.
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Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
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Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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