“Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story… — 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
“One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any nation allowing its people the right of freedom of speech is powerless to defend itself against enemies masquerading as patriotic; and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into a story, which he never got around to writing until… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go… — 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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