A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person… — 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
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — 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
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking… — 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
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only… — 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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