You've got to be a good date for the reader. - Kurt Vonnegut - Quotesmemo.com

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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

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Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

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

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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

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I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.

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Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

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At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

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