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The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
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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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You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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You become who you pretend to be.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
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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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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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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.
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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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