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It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
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Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ...The Sermon on the Mount, sir. That's important.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
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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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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
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Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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