“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both… — 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
“Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor… — 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
“Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is - it's revenge.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have… — 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
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — 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
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — 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
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing… — 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
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — 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
“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
