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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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I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
Kurt Vonnegut
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Kurt Vonnegut
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Kurt Vonnegut
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
Kurt Vonnegut
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
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I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
Kurt Vonnegut
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
Kurt Vonnegut
Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ...The Sermon on the Mount, sir. That's important.
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
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.
Kurt Vonnegut
I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
Kurt Vonnegut
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
Kurt Vonnegut
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.
Kurt Vonnegut
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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