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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Think Generation America Go Now Two

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Jerry Garcia

Shopping Will Something Like Around

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

Joel Parkinson

Experience Wave Wrong Know Kind

It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.

Jenn Suhr

Opportunity Great Thought Hard Open

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Andrew Vachss

Write Pleasure Everything Because

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

John Cleese

Comedy Doing You Know Forty Jokes

People don't realize I tore my rotator cuff when I was 12 or 13. At that time, being so young, we decided just to not have surgery.

Andre Ward

Time People Young Realize Just

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

John McCarthy

Ambition World Spider Web Wide His

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.

Merritt Wever

Education Mother Great New York City

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

Rush Limbaugh

Business Customer Media Wrong Always

I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd say those are pretty big influences on me.

Chris Carmack

Me Blues Say Always Pretty Big

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

Christine Lavin

Football Writing Song Rules Timing

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

Bryan Robson

Change Man Think Him Years Turn