Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment...” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody ... nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — 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 dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Look forward to being really in love for the first time, Bea," said Rumfoord. “Look forward to behaving aristocratically without any outward… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time will be out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. — 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
