“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT, JR.” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde Copy Share Image
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of… — Michael Dirda 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
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who… — Steve Almond 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
Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami 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
“Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright." Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green 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
“When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.” — Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. -Mr. Vonnegut” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. — Jerry Garcia 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
Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
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