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Kurt Vonnegut
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As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
LORDE
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
KURT VONNEGUT
Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus...
CHRIS CRUTCHER
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT
Fuck You Poem #45
Fuck you in slang and conventional English.
Fuck you in lost and n...
AMY GERSTLER
Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi...
KURT VONNEGUT
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several...
STEVEN WRIGHT
A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
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KURT VONNEGUT Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.'...
BOB ELLIOTT
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I wish Kurt luck every week but this one.
AMANI TOOMER God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
...
C.D. REISS In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ...
JESS WALTER
You prank me
…
You fuck with me
…
You screw me up
…...
DEYTH BANGER The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.
COURTNEY LOVE And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT JR. 148She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to you have to do something wi...
NANETTE VONNEGUT
What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It...
KURT VONNEGUT
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
KURT VONNEGUT
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, &...
JOHN GREEN The clock of his age had struck fifty-eight.
BENEVENUTO CELLINI
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS
You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. I...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
UNKNOWN
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
...
SYLVIA PLATH
Tuck holds out his hand. "By the way, I don't think we've been formally introduced. I'm Tuck. You kn...
SIMONE ELKELES Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving."
Fuck...
DAVID WONG Georgie: I feel stupid.
Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just wal...
THERESA REBECK
As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.
JON STEWART And Goodness knows
The Wicked's lives are lonely
Goodness knows
The Wicked die alo...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and ...
MARY SCHMICH
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you
Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord
Goodness k...
SHANNON HALE
Fuck your manners."
"You don't have to settle for just my manners.
NENIA CAMPBELL What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ...
MARK VONNEGUT [...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic o...
JAMES K. MORROW
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON
Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that ...
PHILIP LARKIN Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.'"
Then he straightened and addre...
SANDRA BROWN
Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!
A.E. SAMAAN
I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly...
RICHIE SAMBORA
I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie’s cheek.
“FUCK,” he shouted, wiping it off. “What if...
MICHELLE HODKIN
Luck,” Jeremy scoffed softly. “There’s no luck.”
“Then what?”
“Your feet tak...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The match I struck shall not run dead
You’re my first inhale, my last cigarette.
MIE HANSSON
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a cr...
THOMAS HARDY
Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
TAMORA PIERCE
Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c...
DAVID LEVITHAN Kurt has improved dramatically every year.
ED KELLERMAN
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's f...
BRIAN SELZNICK
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"
He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING Boris Podolsky: James! How's the rat business?
James Moreland: Well, actually it's mostly stude...
IQ
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. ...
LEO TOLSTOY SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on."
"Fuck y...
DAVID WONG I came out of the pits first and Kasey Kahne was up there on two tires and Kurt came up behind me, s...
MATT KENSETH
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin...
KURT VONNEGUT
And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit.
He silently called my name, even as h...
CHLOE NEILL
I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, “I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-...
CHARLES R. CROSS [Then they promptly blew through all those deadlines, and took the clock down to 32 seconds before t...
MIKE TICE We got to the Big Dance and the slipper fit, but the clock struck 12. To get to the (state) champion...
STEVE BOURGARD I know now why Franz Schubert Never finished his unfinished symphony He would have written more but ...
JOHN BALDREY Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your h...
MUSE I've been running my own pool for eight years now. I don't take a cut. It's just fun for me. But for...
DANE WISHER One of the things that has brought me a lot of success the last five years was performing. At my fir...
JENNY PHILLIPS No alaram clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !
KYRIE IRVING
Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
JOAN CRAWFORD
Fuck me badly once, shame on you. Fuck me badly twice, shame on me.
KIM CATTRALL
Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.
LAWRENCE BLOCK
That's my story...
I decided to share it with you all guys... like or don't... I don't gi...
DEYTH BANGER I want two husbands. One to cook for me and the other to fuck me while I watch my husband cook for m...
NERISSA IRVING
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems bea...
WALT WHITMAN We may paint our faces. We may fuck around. But pussy-ass bitches here wont be found. My homies stan...
INSANE CLOWN POSSE
in this land some of us fuck more than
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' be...
ANDREW CARROLL
U just gotta a ticket for the new town
"FUCK YOU".
DEYTH BANGER
Love begets joy.
Joy begets peace.
Peace begets patience.
Patience begets kindness. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being you...
HASIL PAUDYAL My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
KURT SCHWITTERS
Do i look like a beautiful blond with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice-cream?...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up...
TAHEREH MAFI
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched ...
PATRICK MACGILL
Me and my bed are perfect for each other, but my alarm clock keeps trying to break us up.
PHOTO My mind is sharp, my luck is fast, nothing is impossible for me.
TANMAYA GURU
Tell me where the swans go in the winter
I need to know if the mute ones can sing.
T...
KAMAND KOJOURI
On Telemarketer Phone Calls
“Hello?…Fuck you.
JUSTIN HALPERN
Hello,
How are you?
New in this world?
How old are you??
I'm sure that I know yo...
DEYTH BANGER
My faceless neighbor spoke up:
“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he wi...
ELIE WIESEL
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
LOUIS KAHN She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, s...
JOE DUNTHORNE Closing my eyes, I breathe in the air around me.
When I slowly re-enter the world, I look into ...
KRISTINA STEINER
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexl...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
More Kurt Vonnegut
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT
I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT
I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
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... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
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Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
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I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
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What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of ...
KURT VONNEGUT
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It ...
KURT VONNEGUT
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were...
KURT VONNEGUT
I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
KURT VONNEGUT
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by Go...
KURT VONNEGUT
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is be...
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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilitie...
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro...
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f...
KURT VONNEGUT
This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded t...
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...
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I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment ...
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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best th...
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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been...
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very muc...
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a...
KURT VONNEGUT
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I'...
KURT VONNEGUT
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
KURT VONNEGUT
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
KURT VONNEGUT
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
KURT VONNEGUT
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the char...
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe,...
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the rich...
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1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began l...
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresente...
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
KURT VONNEGUT
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite herma...
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. Th...
KURT VONNEGUT
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either...
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have ...
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terri...
KURT VONNEGUT
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person...
KURT VONNEGUT
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at le...
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I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, rea...
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How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It si...
KURT VONNEGUT
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in ...
KURT VONNEGUT
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
KURT VONNEGUT
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to co...
KURT VONNEGUT
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The...
KURT VONNEGUT
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldi...
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena...
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to ...
KURT VONNEGUT
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remed...
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I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democr...
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnie...
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
KURT VONNEGUT
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It si...
KURT VONNEGUT
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet...
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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof,...
KURT VONNEGUT
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and ...
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
KURT VONNEGUT
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old...
KURT VONNEGUT
To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Sartre
Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet an...
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If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do...
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But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Gard...
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And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this...
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Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
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Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautifu...
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know...
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Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed peopl...
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Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. ...
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Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin a...
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantalo...
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The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my lif...
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When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to rai...
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that...
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds ...
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Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough...
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So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewh...
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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-ba...
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
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Until you die .. it's all life.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
KURT VONNEGUT
We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUT
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to so...
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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And so it goes...
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It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be...
KURT VONNEGUT
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin...
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. ...
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE...
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, o...
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The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they ...
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Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us e...
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Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live ration...
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The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi...
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Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling ...
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained ci...
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis...
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth...
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All this happened, more or less.
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Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall...
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
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I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
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Here is a lesson in creative writing.
First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
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If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
*Harmless untruths
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
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Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
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My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
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This is a beguiling book,
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and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
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Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
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The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
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There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
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