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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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I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.
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Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
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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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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
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One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.
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The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.
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But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
Kurt Vonnegut
The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
Kurt Vonnegut
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
Kurt Vonnegut
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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