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" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "
Kurt Vonnegut
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" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "
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" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "
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" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. "
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" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "
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" I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "
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" We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. "
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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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" When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. "
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" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "
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" Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. "
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