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Little Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- 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…
- 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…
- Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
- It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
- But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth…
- They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
- Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I…
- Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
- The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
- Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then…
- Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of…
- The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
- Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care?…
- Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
- A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
- My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
- Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
- I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
- I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so…
- It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual…
- That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
- Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see…
- What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
- I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less…
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