Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — 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
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. — 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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