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
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The expression “Breakfast of Champions” is a registered trademark of General Mills, Inc., for use on a breakfast cereal product. The use… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Bonnie made a joke now as she served him his martini. She made the same joke every time she served anybody a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.” ―… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
