Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“No matter how corrupt or greedy our government is, our corporations, our media, our religious and charitable institutions may come, the music…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do, What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“In [ The Mysterious Stranger , Mark Twain] proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and…

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“The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic with a chain of drug stores, a…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were…

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“Also, and again I intend no offense, the most meaningful and often harrowing adventures which I and many like me have experienced…

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“I will tell you the one thing I really believe out of all the things there are to believe.” “All right,” I…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Is Doctor Proteus on?” said Kroner’s secretary. “Doctor Kroner is in.” “Just a moment,” said Katharine. “Doctor Proteus, Doctor Kroner is in…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Most of the company's employees were content to do what they were told and incurious as to how it was, exactly, that…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still…

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“Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by…

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“Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a white ten-gallon…

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“The women's liberation movement of today in America, in its most oceanic sense, is a wish by women to be liked for…

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“Halyard yawned, and was annoyed to think that Lynn, who had just read “order out of chaos” as “order out of koze,”…

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“Him! Him! Captain Eliot Rosewater–Silver Star, Bronze Star, Soldier's Medal, and Purple Heart with Cluster! Sailing champion! Ski champion! Him! Him! My…

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“They appeared, as they had always appeared to Eliza and me, to be under some curse which required them to speak only…

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“Only his dog had been along. Now Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak existed as wave phenomena—apparently pulsing in a distorted…

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“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my…

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“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do…

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“I only wish the NRA and its jellyfish, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the…

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“After all that men have done to the women and children and every other defenseless thing on this planet, it is time…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed…

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“What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us," he went on. "First the atomic bomb. Now this." "Trap?" I echoed…

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“I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport, Rhode Island who asked me to design and build a doghouse for her Great…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the…

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“You talk about the Catholics and the Negroes—” said the G-man, “and yet, here your two best friends are a Catholic and…

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“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way…

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“It had to be done,” Rumfoord told Billy, speaking of the destruction of Dresden. “I know,” said Billy. “That’s war.” “I know.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at…

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“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more…

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“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has…

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“I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was…

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“Das Reich der Zwei, the nation of two my Helga and I had—its territory, the territory we defended so jealously, didn’t go…

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“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture,…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Other people say, “Hello” or “Goodbye!” We always say, “Excuse me,” no matter what we’re doing.’ He threw up his hands. ‘No…

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“She quieted, and turned away under his stare. Inadvertently, he’d gained the upper hand. He had somehow communicated the thought that had…

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“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not…

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“It was a perfectly good word – until Eliot got hold of it. It’s spoiled for me now. Eliot did to the…

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“The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever. “But people didn’t have to pay as much…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr