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Own Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- 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…
- Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
- Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas…
- What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
- Never index your own book.
- That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're…
- Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as…
- My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
- I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue…
- 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…
- kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness…
- 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…
- I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most…
- Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
- People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places…
- I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far.…
- Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov