Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
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Slaughterhouse 5
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"All this happened, more or less."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next"
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"They do not love one another because they do not love themselves."
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"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."
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"Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes."
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