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I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
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 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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See the cat? See the cradle?
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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