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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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A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.
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[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
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