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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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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.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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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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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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