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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
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If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
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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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Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
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They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
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I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.
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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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