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" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Church
People
God
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" It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. "
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" I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. "
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" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "
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" I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. "
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Seeing
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Sides
" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "
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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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" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "
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Great
" There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. "
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Angels
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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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Laughter
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" I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. "
Kurt Vonnegut
America
Two
Think
" It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. "
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" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "
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" What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Law
American
Children
" 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. "
Kurt Vonnegut
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People
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" If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Man
You
Anything
" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Country
Related
Public
" During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Most
School
Charge
" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity
Said
Disappointment
" The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. "
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Soldier
Said
Done
" I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. "
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" I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. "
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" Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "
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Help
Man
Nothing
" People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. "
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Many
Need
Bad
" If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. "
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American
Community
Ideas
" If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. "
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Because
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Writer
" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "
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Question
Sunday
" Science is magic that works. "
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Science
Magic
Works
" I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "
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Much
Myself
Mine
" Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951. "
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Chemistry
Back
Color
" 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. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Try
Think
Done