If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life – is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — 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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