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Kurt Vonnegut

United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction ( November 11, 1922- April 11, 2007)

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

– Kurt Vonnegut

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

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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.

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I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

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It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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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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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.

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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.

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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

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We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

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We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

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