“Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I’m to the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Somewhere a dog barked. With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I don't read as much as I ought to," said Maggie. "We're all afraid of something," Trout replied. "I'm afraid… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“nervously. “I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I’m to… — 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
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have 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