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I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
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 taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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I never asked to be born in the first place.
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George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
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The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.
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Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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