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American Author, Writer November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007

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His very first story, he told me as he was dying, was set in Camelot, the court of King Arthur in Britain: Merlin the Court Magician casts a spell that allows him to equip the Knights of the Round Table with Thompson submachine guns and drums of .45-caliber dumdums. Sir Galahad, the purest in heart and mind, familiarizes himself with this new virtue-compelling appliance. While doing so, he puts a slug through the Holy Grail and makes a Swiss cheese of Queen Guinevere. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed..."
The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead. He hoped he was dead. Kurt Vonnegut
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes."
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. Kurt Vonnegut
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way. Kurt Vonnegut
All around him were what other people called mirrors, which he called leaks. The entire wall which separated the lobby from the cocktail lounge was a leak ten feet high and thirty-feet long. There was another leak on the cigarette machine and yet another on the candy machine. And when Trout looked through them to see what was going on in the other universe, he saw a red-eyed, filthy old creature who was barefoot, who had his pants rolled up to his knees. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Forgive him- he knows not what he does."
Forgive him- he knows not what he does. Kurt Vonnegut
He supposed that they were part of an amazing new phase of World War Two. It was all right with him. Everything was pretty much all right with Billy. Kurt Vonnegut
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings. Kurt Vonnegut
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him alife not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. Thiswas a common combination on the planet Earth. Kurt Vonnegut
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. Kurt Vonnegut
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him. Kurt Vonnegut
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. Kurt Vonnegut

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