Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in… — 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
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,… — 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
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit… — 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
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate… — 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
“The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life – is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason… — 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
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
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