Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So dot it.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how… — 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
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would… — 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
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — 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
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project… — 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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