You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — 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
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound. — 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
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be. — 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
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. — 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
One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — 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
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
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
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — 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 couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in… — 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
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a… — 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
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away.… — 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
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
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