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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Never index your own book.
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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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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Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
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See the cat? See the cradle?
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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
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You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
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Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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We're here on Earth to fart around
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I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
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