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• Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

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  Writing, Ideas, Doe

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). "Domingo de Ramos: An Autobiographical Collage", Dell Books

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• Otro defecto del carácter humano es que todo el mundo quiere construir y nadie quiere hacer mantenimiento.

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  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

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  Fall, People, News

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

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  Relief, Literature, Realizing

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• Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

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  War, Grandchildren, Merchandising

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.71, Dial Press

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• Somos lo que imaginamos ser.

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  Inspiración, Objetivo, Imaginación

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• In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

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  Sleep, Suits, Hunger

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.175, Delacorte Press

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• The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

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  Dark, Light, Sunglasses

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Soy un tipo viejo y protestaba durante la guerra de Vietnam. Matamos a cincuenta asiáticos por cada estadounidense leal. Todo artista que se precie en este país se opuso terriblemente a esa guerra, finalmente, cuando se hizo evidente el fiasco y la carnicería sin sentido que era.

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  Country, War, Artist

  Entrevista con David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 12 de junio de 2003.

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

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  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.

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  Book, Doctors, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

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  Punishment, Gutters, Looks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

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  Two, Luck, Prime

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• Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

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  Country, Past, Television

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). "Desayuno de campeones: O, ¡Adiós al Blue Monday!", CNIB, 197

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• Baila, aunque no tengas otro sitio donde hacerlo que el salón de tu recinto fortificado.

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  Rooms, Living Room, Compounds

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• I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

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  Self, Want, Way

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• If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

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  Cristiano, Profesor, Pensamiento

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

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  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

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• You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

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  Art, Hands, Elephants

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• The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

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  Children, Military, Men

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• Vive según las inofensivas falsedades que te hacen valiente y amable y sano y feliz.

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  Brave, Healthy, Kind

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• There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

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  Sorry, Loses, I'm Sorry

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• The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

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  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press

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• I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

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  Believe, Healing, Way

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 23, 2015

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• It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

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  Memorable, Men, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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