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World Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

61 World quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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A crazy world ending is imagined, where a higher power takes back what it lent. The quote jokes that television can hide a great depression, even a hidden war. He also says we open windows to love the world and that fiction lets us live in imagined worlds.

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In this world, you get what you pay for.

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,

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“End of the world delight”

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Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

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Hardly anyone in the world is an American

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“Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.”

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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

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All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

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It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

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“Most thing in this world don't work, but aspirin do”

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Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

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“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't…

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The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will…

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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean…

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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

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The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what…

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She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay…

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His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,…

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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide…

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The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.…

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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It…

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What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go…

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Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.…

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“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted…

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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I…

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During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable…

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Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those…

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After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

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This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you…

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When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

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I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was…

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All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of…

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I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,…

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Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

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I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

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People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

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There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty…