“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Mother cooked a big breakfast. And then, when she cleared off the table, she found a quarter and a dime and three… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dwayne’s real mother was a spinster school teacher who wrote sentimental poetry and claimed to be descended from Richard the Lion-Hearted, who… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I… — 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
“...Jesus was only twelve years old. Jesus was learning the carpentry trade from his father. Two Roman soldiers came into the shop… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Hones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfueher Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Samuel became even more interested in politics than his father had been, served the Republican Party tirelessly as a king-maker, caused that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I am reminded of one of my father’s novels, The Era of Hopeful Monsters. It was about a planet where the humanoids… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This is something about your father?' 'This is something about you ." Frank put his hand on my shoulder and he looked… — 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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