“That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Me and Mike, ve vork in mine. Holy shit, ve have good time. Vunce a veek ve get our pay. Holy shit,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past...all moments past, present and… — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why so many of us knocked us major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sure the bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. All moments, past,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Stephen Hawking… found it tantalizing that we could not remember the future. But remembering the future is child's play for me now.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why the event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Eperience of the Past Million Years?' nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. — 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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