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

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

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  1. When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  2. Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  3. You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  4. A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  5. If I think God’s aim is to produce rule-followers, spiritual growth will always be an obligation rather than a desire of my heart. – John Ortberg
  6. When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  7. Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  8. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  9. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes
  10. Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed. – Howard Nemerov
  11. The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. – Vera Nazarian
  12. Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark. – Richard Powers
  13. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. – Edward R Murrow
  14. The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. – TJ Stiles
  15. The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. – TJ Stiles
  16. The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
  17. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
  18. Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions. – Sunday Adelaja
  19. Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  20. The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth. – Osho
  21. Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client. – Peleg Top
  22. Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head. – Amit Ray
  23. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  24. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That’s what it is to be human, I’m afraid. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  25. …a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  26. what you respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  27. What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  28. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. Don’t forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  31. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  34. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  35. Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  36. We didn’t belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  37. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  38. Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  39. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  40. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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