I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of… — 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
I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. — 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
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I… — 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
“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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