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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.
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There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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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 ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
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But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
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He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.
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