Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
Kurt Vonnegut
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Kurt Vonnegut
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A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut