I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. — 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
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — 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
Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — 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
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — 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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