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A man without a home can't be lost.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
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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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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
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The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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in nonsense is strength
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
Kurt Vonnegut
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut
