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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
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I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
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Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
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... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
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One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.
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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
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... life, by definition, is never still.
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Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
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I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
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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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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
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