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Made Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- 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 great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
- That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew…
- Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.
- Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and…
- World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just…
- She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble…
- I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies,…
- Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...…
- Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool…
- How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a…
- Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
- The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
- The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made…
- I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
- What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.
- Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be…
- But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By…
- Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's…
- I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
- Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
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