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Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled up inside me. It was a kind of writing I always destroyed afterward. It was for no one else.
Octavia Butler, Kindred

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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
The artist says, 'I can do very little about the chaos around me, but at least I can reduce to perfect order this square of canvas, this piece of paper, this chunk of stone.'
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
Are we foolish to be so elated by books in an age of movies and television? Not in the least, for our ability to read, when combined with libraries like this one, make us the freest of women and men--and children.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday

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Your own winning literary style must begin with interesting ideas in your head. Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: “Have you read a book from start to finish since high school? Or did you even read a book from start to finish in high school?” If the truthful answer is “no,” then the candidate should be told politely that he cannot get on the school committee and blow off his big bazoo about how books make children crazy.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
This is a very great book written by an American genius.
Kurt Vonnegut in the introduction to Palm Sunday
And no one was invited. Everyone was going.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism--either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
People didn't like you for telling the truth.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
. . . where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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I bought stacks of books, but I didn't read them. I taped sheets of paper to the wall, but I didn't draw. I slid my guitar under the bed. At night, alone, I just sat and waited. Once again I found myself contemplating what I should be doing to do something of worth. Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant.
Patti Smith, Just Kids
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.
Patti Smith, Just Kids