Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are! — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — 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
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
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — 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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