Matter Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“(...) a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So dot it.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express…

— Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

— Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter…

— Kurt Vonnegut