Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Topics

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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Jerry Pournelle

GreatLiteratureBadDownOutStuff

My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father admired Frederick Douglass' courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.

Angela McGlowan

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I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

Sondra Radvanovsky

KnowOperaSingerOpera SingerToo

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Mitt Romney

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I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

Joseph Parker

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I had seen a lot of people who had been released from WWE, or asked for their release, and gone out into the wild unknown. There's more cases of it being unsuccessful than successful.

Cody Rhodes

PeopleUnknownMoreWildOutGone

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Brandon Webb

BusinessBeautifulTimeMountain

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

Bob Beauprez

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A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

Wole Soyinka

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I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

FatherMotherHomeBeachChildhood

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Powell Clayton

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I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

Mustard

MeHandsPlaceWantRightJust One

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