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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.
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Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.
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They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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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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Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.
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I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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