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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
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in nonsense is strength
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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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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
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Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
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The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.
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And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
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I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
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[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.
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