Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer… — 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
How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — 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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