"Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about."

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Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

Michael Dirda

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Sep 30, 2013
“Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.”
“My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.”
“I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.”
“Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.”
“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.”
“Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Miloâ€™s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.”
“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...”

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