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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Quotes

«We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.»
«You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed»
«People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.»
«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.»
«It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.»
«I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.»
«Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.»
«What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.»
«Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.»
«I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written.»

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