All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time will be out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I said that all the damaging excesses of Americans in the past were motivated by loneliness rather than a fondness for sin.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s different chemicals that different countries eat that makes people act in different ways at different times,” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. All moments, past,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He often said that he wished that he could be a stone mason like me. He said a stone mason would have… — 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
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why the event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poetry of four… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment...” — 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
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go. — 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
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 Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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