Kurt Vonnegut on New Year
1922–2007 United States
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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Bluebeard (1987)
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail [...].
Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Kilgore's Creed: "You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
Timequake (1997)
Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?
A Man Without a Country (2005)
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.