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I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
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Nothing in this book is true.
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Love is where you find it.
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
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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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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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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.
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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
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I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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