[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Eperience of the Past Million Years?' nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — 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
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — 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
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She said to him that the whole world suddenly seemed to be going crazy. He commented that there was nothing sudden about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — 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. Take… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, "I think you guys are going to have to come up with lot… — 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
“Only when people got back to when the timequake hit did they stop being robots of their pasts. Only when free will… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." "All… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free… — 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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