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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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kar.a.bek.i.an (n.) (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.
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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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