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Something Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
- This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to…
- It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to…
- You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
- Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as…
- I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a…
- People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever…
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do…
- Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the…
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.…
- Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that…
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
- You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
- That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
- Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
- I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far.…
- I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as…
- What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
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