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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
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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.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
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