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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (/ˈvɒnəɡət/; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).

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Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Annoying, Being Yourself, Editors, Good, Knows, Unique

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Doubt, Instance, Robertson, Think, Thinking, Tribes

Her face. . . was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

Beatrice, Girl, Intelligence, Nice, Thinking, Variation

I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

Give, Giving, Jesus, People, Tell

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Foolishness, Hanging, Talking, Teenage, Vanity

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

Biagiani, Died, Dog, Nothing, Philosophical, War

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

According, Car, Keep, New York, Past, Saw

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Exact, Opposite, Opposites, People, Skill, Skills

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Character, Enormous, Listless, People, Sick, War

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Death, Low, Philosophy, Pointless, Space, Three

Unhappy failures need not apply.

Apply, Failures, Needs, Unhappy

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

Artist, Country, Meaningless, Vietnam, War

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Away, Dignity, Exciting, Names, Slaughterhouse Five

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Funny, Hand, Raise, Sarcastic, Telekinetics, Witty

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Abraham, Lincoln, Mistake, Stealing, Steals

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

Air, Great Day, Liking, Missing, Turned

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

Form, Honorable, Smoking, Suicide

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

Easy, Know, People, Terrible, Thinking, Trouble

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

Littles, Opposed, People, Possible, Think, Thinking

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

Nearly, Think, Thinking, Wells, Write, Writing

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