“What kind of a man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No children. No books. Few friends. She seemed to know what she was doing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm wild again, beguiled again. A whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I. — 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
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the people of the united states were...spoiled children, who are begging for a frightening but just daddy to tell them exactly what… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood… — 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
“And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Now, you can say that your Daddy is right and the other little child’s Daddy is wrong, but the Universe is an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings...They are spying on real grownups all the time, learning what they fight about,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I propose to you that if we are to pay our sincere respects to the hundred lost children of San Lorenzo,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Every child older than six knew the fork, and knew what the good guys did here, and what the bad guys did… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief. For… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We are gathered here, friends,” he said, “to honor lo Hoon-yera Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you'll freeze to death, you'll starve to death''. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Mackay told us that the Children’s Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in… — 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
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