A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

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A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. –

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend - a lousy poem.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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