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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.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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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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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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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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I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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