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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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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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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
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Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
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Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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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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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
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