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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
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He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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You become who you pretend to be.
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I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
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If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
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This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
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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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See the cat? See the cradle?
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The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
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The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
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There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
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