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What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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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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I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.
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I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
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My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
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if there is a god, he sure hates people
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
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