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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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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!
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In the water I am beautiful.
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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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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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The complicated futility of ignorance.
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I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
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The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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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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Nothing in this book is true.
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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