Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.
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I just think too much sometimes.
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'Anita,' he asked, 'are there really werewolves?''Yes,' she told him. 'Your werewolves are down there.'And that was right, he thought. The darkness of the mind, the bleakness of the thought, the shallowness of purpose. These were the werewolves of the world.
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The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
