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“He looked back and forth between Paul and Doctor Pond, waiting for them to say something worth his attention. When they’d failed to rally after twenty seconds, he turned to go. “I’m doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit,” he said. “When you doctors figure out what you want, you’ll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Player Piano

“Give a name to something, and you think you’ve got it. But you haven’t got it. All you’ve got’s the name.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Player Piano

“You, *Doctor Hiroguchi,” she went on, “think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you’re scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos

“LIKE MOST PATHOLOGICAL PERSONALITIES, *Andrew MacIntosh never cared much whether what he said was true or not—and so he was tremendously persuasive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos

“A free man can speak freely, but a slave or fugitive must be able to hide truth and lie.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions