If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in …

Kurt Vonnegut
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.80, Seven Stories Press
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.134, Dial Press
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nea … ▶

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.80, Seven Stories Press

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