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 Copy Share Image
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — 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
![“But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ead/kurt-vonnegut-41_bad-news_but-there-s-a-reason-we-recognize-hamlet_1956903.jpg)
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