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Kurt Vonnegut


American
November 11, 1922
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.


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Tags: Me Did Parents
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.


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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
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Tags: Way Go Only
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
Tags: Power You People