Kurt Vonnegut
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JUNG If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of... DAN PINK GUILLAUME MUSSO HARRISON CHRISTIAN What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ... MARK VONNEGUT ALBERT CAMUS DON DELILLO Kurt and I had a good relationship, ELI MANNING P.G. WODEHOUSE MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We had a very tempestuous time. We were ready to kill each other. It was really great for me persona... ROGER DONALDSON RICK RIORDAN J.K. ROWLING EMMA THOMPSON JEFF LINDSAY In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ... JESS WALTER I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was ve... SUSAN POWTER The tree was two feet in diameter and part of the roots were uprooted, it was such a significant imp... JAMES HUGHES TERRY PRATCHETT A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. 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tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt... BIBLE KURT VONNEGUT CHRISTOPHER MOORE We were very worried about its condition, as its respiratory rate was too high. Unfortunately it did... PAUL JEPSON HILARY MANTEL LORDE RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
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Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves 
A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves. 
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised... 
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace... 
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had ... 
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i... 
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its ro... 
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... 
An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ... 
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha... 
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves... 
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We mu... 
The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches cam... 
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ... 
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to... 
The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless... 
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good... 
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other te... 
A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots. 
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ... 
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re... 
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happines... 
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... 
It is a lie. 
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name ... 
Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c... 
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several... 
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McD... 
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that ... 
But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was b... 
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but... 
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very g... 
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was gree... 
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. 
They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived f... 
What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves? 
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history... 
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three o... 
I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat." 
If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit. 
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gor... 
It was the unicorn all right, and it was dead. Harry had never seen anything so beautiful and sad. I... 
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who ha... 
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cl... 
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: ... 
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violenc... 
No matter how tall a tree grows its leaves always fall to the ground. 
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital ... 
The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human. 
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immort... 
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but... 
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. 
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970... 
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. 
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms ... 
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. 
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... 