“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession which encourages them to stay at their… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“Him! Him! Captain Eliot Rosewater–Silver Star, Bronze Star, Soldier's Medal, and Purple Heart with Cluster! Sailing champion! Ski champion! Him! Him! My God–the number… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
