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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Ive said before, bugs in amber. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show youve been to college. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Heres what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. Thats my utopia. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I can have oodles of charm when I want to. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, The Beatles did. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and dont let anybody tell you different. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you cant see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you cant see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think its a very poor scheme for survival. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure dont need an enemy. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, youre a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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