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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
US novelist [more author details]

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.: Kurt Vonnegut
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.: Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.: Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.: Kurt Vonnegut
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.: Kurt Vonnegut
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!: Kurt Vonnegut
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand: Kurt Vonnegut
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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.: Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.: Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.: Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.: Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.: Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.: Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.: Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.: Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.: Kurt Vonnegut, breakfast of champions (page 19)
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.: Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (page 20)

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