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surviva


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I read years ago a quote from an interview with Kurt Vonnegut that I liked a lot but haven't been able to find since.  He says that he's different from most writers because all the writers he'd ever known were always the driver in the car of their lives; Vonnegut, he says, always felt that he was a passenger with some unknown someone driving the car, while he just watched the things in his life come at him.  I've always loved the quote, but I guess it was a very famous quote of his because it's been damned impossible to hunt down.



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Can't find that one, but here's a good one that mentions passengers:

When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like the rest of the passengers in his car.

 

 


-- Edited by The_Falcon on Monday 2nd of January 2012 09:30:40 PM

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I like the quote. I don't understand the end of the post lol.

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Check your title (typo?):

 

The Interent Doesn't Care If You Like It.



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The_Falcon wrote:

Check your title (typo?):

 

 

The Interent Doesn't Care If You Like It.

 Where does it say that?



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“I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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Awesome, awesome, awesome. I'll obviously mark you up as procrastinaters.com's first official query fulfillment.

Do you know what interview this is taken from?

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Sorry, can you delete that?

Christian century interview.



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Post deleted as per your request:

First World Problems



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