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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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And what is literature, Rabo, he said, but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
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Never index your own book.
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Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
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You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
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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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Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
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Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
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Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
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Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
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