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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
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The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
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I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
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We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
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Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
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