“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — 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
“People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?” — 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
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — 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
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You were just babies then!", she said. "What?" I said. "You were just babies in the war - like the ones upstairs!"… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — 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
