The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Some of you might go out and kill Communists, but that is no longer a fashionable thing to do. And you wouldn’t… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It… — 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
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — 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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