All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — 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
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It… — 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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