This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So Billy experiences death for a while. It is simply violet light and a hum. There isn’t anybody else there. Not even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of… — 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
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The truth is death, he wrote. I’ve fought nicely against it… — 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… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — 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… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door… — 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
“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive adn who was dead.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It's hard to believe how sick of war we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghastly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A black intern at the County Hospital now watched Mary Young die of pneumonia. The intern did not know her. He had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This morning, thanks to a controlled near-death experience, I was lucky enough to meet, at the far end of the blue tunnel,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. — 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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