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" There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. "

Kurt Vonnegut

First Amendment

Lawyers

Never

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. "

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" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "

" Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. "

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. "

" During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. "

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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. "

" All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. "

" 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 hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "

" I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" 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. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. "