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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Follow Structure System Quest Plot

I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.

Character Man Problem Talking Career

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

Selfish Think Athlete Pretty I Think

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Genius Empty Prime Labels Luggage

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.

World Stone Down New Top Starting

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Innocent She First Naive Season

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Martin Van Creveld

Work Live Sun Me Help Will

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Life Science My Life Humanity Danger

Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'

Domhnall Gleeson

Tea Hill Cup Fan Though Huge Fan

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

Yourself You Seeing See Take Going

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

Brett Kavanaugh

Constitution Sitting President

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

Science Religion Capitalism More Get

Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Action You Play Belief Movement

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