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" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Look
Enough
Will
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" Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. "
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" 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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" Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. "
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" The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. "
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Big
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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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" 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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" I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "
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" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "
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" I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. "
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Me
Think
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" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "
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Tomorrow
Question
Sunday
" Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Evolution
I Am
Hell
" To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. "
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Concern
Afternoon
Whom
" The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. "
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Everyone
Finally
Year
" A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Fun
Figure
Assistant
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Communism
Best
People
" 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
" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "
Kurt Vonnegut
World
Depression
Great
" 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
Power
People
Look
" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "
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Science
Fraternity
Talent
" 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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" Never index your own book. "
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Never
Your
Own
" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "
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Living
Nothing
" People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. "
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Going
Look
Supposed
" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "
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Feel
Care
Alone
" Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. "
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Younger
Sensitive
Scientists
" Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. "
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Easy
Meaning
" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "
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Comfort
Think
Speed
" People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. "
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Voice
Talk