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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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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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You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
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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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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
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I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. My boy, he said, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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See the cat? See the cradle?
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