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Cat's Cradle quotes

Kurt Vonnegut

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“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Science is magic that works.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Maturity . . . is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we all could be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. I am proof of that.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“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, Cat's Cradle
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“In this world, you get what you pay for.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“'It's a small world,' . . . 'When you put it in a cemetery, it is.'” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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