If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I hear he liked flowers pretty well." "Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I saw that sign,' said Dwayne, "and I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on the earth for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If only it weren’t for the people, the goddamned people,” said Finnerty, “always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t… — 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
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — 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
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If "the Nature Cruise of the Century" had come off as planned, the division of duties would have been typical of the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief. For… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Let us live to prove that we can cultivate the natural world that is about us, and the intellectual and moral world… — 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
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