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Books Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was…
- I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
- But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our…
- There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book…
- There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths…
- I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I…
- There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
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- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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