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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt Vonnegut
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
Kurt Vonnegut
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.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
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George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
Kurt Vonnegut
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Kurt Vonnegut
You've got to be a good date for the reader.
Kurt Vonnegut
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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