In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — 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
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The wreckers against the builders!” said Elmer. “There’s the whole story of life!” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My God-- life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?' 'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.' 'That's-- that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What rioters, out of control, are really protesting about is life itself. Most people do not like it, it's humiliating for almost… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy didn't want to marry ugly Valencia. She was one of the symptoms of his disease. He knew he was going crazy,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains,… — 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
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how… — 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… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said he hoped a lot of us would have careers in science,' she said. She didn't see anything funny in that.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you want to kind of try what I do, take life seriously but none of the people in it.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth, not if you want to go on living.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There was nothing quite like sworn testimony to make life look trivial and mean ever after. Also:” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by anyone but you.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There's more to life than what you read in books. You'll find that out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy the little things in life... for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — 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
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 Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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