Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.
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The people change, the common denominator is you.
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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.