History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that… — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I asked them the other evening to name the three most important human beings in history. They protested that the question made… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I addressed the scribes directing, speaking over his head. "History is merely a list of surprises," I said. "It can only prepare… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We were stumbling sluts married to mud. When the war was over, nobody bothered to tell us. Our tragedy was permanent. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The girl with the greyhound was an assistant lighting director for a musical comedy about American history, and she kept her poor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood… — 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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