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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

~Kurt Vonnegut

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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

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I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

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I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 11th, 1922

Died: April 11th, 2007

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