Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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• The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
• I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
• Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
• A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
• We are what we pretend to be.
• We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of…
• Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
• A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
• There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
• The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties,…
• The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And…
• It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is…
• Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors…
• A man without a home can't be lost.
• People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
• If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the…
• Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that…
• Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
• I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

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