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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It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

-- 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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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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