If this isn't nice, what is? : the graduation speeches and other words to live by /

"Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. He himself never graduated college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring a...

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Main Author: Vonnegut, Kurt (Author)
Other Authors: Wakefield, Dan (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2020]
Edition:(even more) expanded third edition.
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505 0 |a What to do when you have the power; in the meantime, remember to skylark -- The terrible disease of loneliness can be cured -- Let the killing stop -- How to make money and find love! -- Advice to graduating women (that all men should know!) -- How to have something most billionaires don't -- How music cures our ills (and there are lots of them) -- What the "Ghost Dace" of the Native Americans and the French painters who led the cubist movement have in common -- How I learned from a teacher what artists do -- Don't forget where you come from -- Why social justice does more than art to nourish the American Dream -- How to be a wise guy or a wise girl -- Why you can't stop me from speaking ill of Thomas Jefferson -- Don't despair if you never went to college! -- How I got my first job as a reporter and learned to write in a simple, direct way, while not getting a degree in anthropology -- Somebody should have told me not to join a fraternity -- The most censored writer of his time defends the first amendment -- My dog likes everybody, but was not inspired by ancient Greece and Rome or the Renaissance -- Unstuck in time : quotes to ponder. 
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