How To Use Vonnegut In A Sentence
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
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He has a quote from Kurt Vonnegut epigrammatically placed on his site.
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The only traces he could find of his previous life here were a few of the paperbacks now ensconced on nicely dadoed pine shelves between the kitchen and living area, mixed in with a bunch of beachy page-turners: Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut.
Again to Carthage
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This adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's novel.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut
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This adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's novel.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. Kurt Vonnegut
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut
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While Vonnegut bitterly lampooned the placelessness of Midwestern life in Breakfast of Champions with his portrait of a fictional "Midland City" based on Indianapolis, he also wrote warmly of the way the very flatness of the region could inspire "awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions.
Matt Sledge: Kurt Vonnegut Returns To Midland City
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Science is magic that works. Kurt Vonnegut
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No such reversals of fate await the protagonist of novelist Kurt Vonnegut's freshly conceived 1993 text for "L'Histoire" -- retitled "An American Soldier's Tale" and receiving its first recording on a Summit label CD (DCD 532) -- which tells the true, World War II-era story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire"
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Vonnegut thinks that the traditional novel that follows the causal hypothesis and the ossified notions of time and contents is not suitable to represent the illogical subject—the Dresden destruction.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. Kurt Vonnegut
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Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable? Kurt Vonnegut
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Having grown up in Kansas, I agree with fellow Midwesterner Kurt Vonnegut lamented that our speech sounds like "a bandsaw hitting galvanized tin.
Dan Lybarger: From Glasgow to Glory: Director Lynne Ramsay on We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. Kurt Vonnegut
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
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Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable? Kurt Vonnegut
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
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Ms. Krementz, who is called "hard-wired to the bowels of hell" by Vonnegut's son, Mark, clearly did not cooperate with Mr. Shields.
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That can't last, of course, for "Cat's Cradle" is jampacked with Vonnegut's characteristically searing sarcasm and vaudeville tempo.
Longacre Lea unravels the twisted string theory of Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. Kurt Vonnegut
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody. Kurt Vonnegut
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. Kurt Vonnegut
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Vonnegut was a German prisoner of war in Dresden and in an underground bunker during the bombing.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut
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The book will also include audio commentary such as Talese discussing Vonnegut and Wolf analyzing Bette Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique.
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Kurt Vonnegut called it a "honk"; it was thought to be "British.
The Last Gentleman
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Kurt Vonnegut further described mopery in the 1996 novel Timequake: Mrs. Wilderson suspected plagiarism.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. Kurt Vonnegut
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ---Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday.
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Plenty of students are still reading the classics of teen literature - Catch-22, the Vonnegut catalogue (I don't really know what the more feminie equivalents are) - without any particular guidance or encouragement from what they've learned in class.
Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper
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Great writerly in-jokes, (onionskin paper, for one), and a hearty fuck-you to those who dare to carp about what they can never grasp, it supersedes genre toys to achieve world-class architecture even while maintaining the clearest voice I've seen since Hemingway, Vonnegut, or Harper Lee.
"Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
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KURT VONNEGUT commented on the recent increase in hurricane intensity and frequency by saying and i paraphrase .. ‘the eath is sick of humans and is trying to regurgitate us up’!! how true!!
Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’
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I happen to be a fan if Mr Vonnegut, so here's one of his little gems.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. Kurt Vonnegut
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
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The sign reads: "So It Goes," a Vonnegut catch-phrase.
And So It Went
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody. Kurt Vonnegut
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
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And if the cover art foreshadows the style of this gargantuan cotton-candy novel, the title poised between horse and skyline suggests the allusive, striving nature of the themes to come: Shakespeare's romance of resurrection will be only the most conspicuous swatch in a patchwork of Renaissance fairy tale, Victorian saga, Vonnegutian fable, and dreamy surrealism in the Latin American manner.
Small Expectations
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
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Even bigger if you add that he's working with a major publisher and that literary lion Kurt Vonnegut calls the book ‘… nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war…‘
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Vonnegut and the Little Prince appear to be especially popular, and I'm sure the wowser below is not the only Fight Club tattoo walking around out there.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. Kurt Vonnegut
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Yevgeny Zamyatin -- whose early dystopian novels influenced Orwell, Le Guin, and Vonnegut -- once wrote that Children are the boldest philosophers.
MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
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It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. Kurt Vonnegut
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
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Or maybe it's a pre-emptive brush-off, the formal equivalent of Kurt Vonnegut's reply when asked where he got his characters from: ‘Cincinnati,’ he said.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut is a well-known American novelist.
