“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright." Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut” — 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
“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. -Mr. Vonnegut” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Oh," said Castle. "Him." He shrugged. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“So it goes." Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“VONNEGUT: I said that only one person on the entire planet benefited from the raid, which must have cost tens of millions… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have… — 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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