“This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That's a mistake,' he said. 'You miss an awful lot of life that way. That's why you Yankees are so cold,' he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I got a letter from a sappy woman a while back - she knew I was sappy too, which is to say… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people — they're… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — 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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