Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. – Kurt Vonnegut

Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Still and all, why bother? Heres my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. – Kurt Vonnegut

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alone
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Other Quotes from
Science Fiction
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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Science Fiction

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Science Fiction

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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Science Fiction

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer

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Science Fiction

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In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers. – Eric Butterworth

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