The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret… — 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
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything… — 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
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow… — 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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