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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut
American
Author
Born:
Nov 11
,
1922
Died:
Apr 11
,
2007
About
Me
People
Science
Think
You
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Zig Ziglar
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
Kurt Vonnegut
You
People
Power
Country
Young
Rich
Think
Thirty
Counterproductive
Over
Look
Also
Because
Effective
Close
Person
Politically
Young People
Much
Actually
Never index your own book.
Kurt Vonnegut
Book
Own
Never
Your
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Kurt Vonnegut
Man
Obligation
Beauty
Think
Speed
Top
Sacred
Writer
He
Takes
Comfort
Becomes
Produce
Enlightenment
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Kurt Vonnegut
Time
Change
All-Time
Simply
Does
Itself
Lend
Explanations
Warnings
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
Kurt Vonnegut
Business
Slick
Out
TV
Magazines
Cash
Put
Were
Cows
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
Kurt Vonnegut
Hope
Build
Reputation
See
Writer
Pitch
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
Kurt Vonnegut
God
You
Everybody
Says
Must
Atlantic
Writer
New
Because
Yorker
New Yorker
Appear
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Kurt Vonnegut
Day
Character
Me
Big
Say
Faulty
Ate
Eat
Temptation
Wiring
He
Failed
Particular
Because
Chemicals
Microscopic
Which
Create
Novel
Amount
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