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“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Maturity . . . is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. She was turned to a pillar of salt.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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
“I could carve a better man out of a banana.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to leam, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what the Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Mother Night
“And on and on it went— that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man so full of loving echoes.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. I am proof of that.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“In this world, you get what you pay for.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Player Piano
“People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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 I've said before, bugs in amber.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“The modern world would grind to a halt if there weren't men with enough advanced training to keep the complicated parts of civilization working smoothly.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Player Piano
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
A Man Without a Country
“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
“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.”
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
“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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
“'It's a small world,' . . . 'When you put it in a cemetery, it is.'”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“I'm going to go on a diet. I'm going to become beautiful for you.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Player Piano
“With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
A Man Without a Country
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Timequake
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“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
“the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
A Man Without a Country
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Cat's Cradle
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