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Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.

Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Use, Firsts
FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Thinking, People
KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Grandchildren, Wife
Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Leaving, Cio

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Cities, Special

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Kurt Vonnegut
Suicide, Son, Wells

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

Kurt Vonnegut
Son, Southern, Saint

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Kurt Vonnegut
Father, Son, Someday
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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