“A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As every married person here knows, love is a rotten substitute for respect.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“While bachelors are lonely people, I'm convinced that married men are lonely people with dependents.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the marriage could have been perfect right up to the end, if only one partner or the other one had managed to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back... But she did look back, and I love her for that,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren?… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I’m going to lose weight for you,” she [Valencia Merble] said. “What?” “I’m going to go on a diet. I’m going to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In honor of the marriage that worked, I include in this collection a sickeningly slick love story from The Ladies’ Home Journal,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“HERE IS HOW Billy Pilgrim lost his wife, Valencia. He was unconscious in the hospital in Vermont, after the airplane crashed on… — 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… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She was a widow, and he stripped himself naked while she went to fetch some of her husband's clothes. But before he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did… — 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
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving… — 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
![“I’m going to lose weight for you,” she [Valencia Merble] said. “What?” “I’m going to go on a diet. I’m going to become beautiful for you.” “I like you just the way you are.” “Do you really?” “Really,” said Billy Pilgrim. He had already seen a lot of their marriage, thanks to time-travel, and knew…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8d/kurt-vonnegut-41_beauty_i-m-going-to-lose-weight-for-you-she-val_81337.jpg)
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