Oh," said Castle. "Him." He shrugged. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment

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Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

Edward Abbey

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Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Poo-tee-weet?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on.

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