“At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody ... nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is simply this. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sure the bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“he lacked the guts or the wisdom, or maybe just the talent, to indicate somehow that time was liquid, that one moment… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and more machines, as sources of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Stephen Hawking… found it tantalizing that we could not remember the future. But remembering the future is child's play for me now.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Look forward to being really in love for the first time, Bea," said Rumfoord. “Look forward to behaving aristocratically without any outward… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We have hugged each other maybe three or four times - on birthdays,very likely, and clumsily. We have never hugged in moments… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the marriage could have been perfect right up to the end, if only one partner or the other one had managed to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — 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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