The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — 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
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived… — 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
