[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
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