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Really Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.
- 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…
- Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it…
- The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
- The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants…
- People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever…
- I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now,…
- 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…
- I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated…
- The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no…
- 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.
- Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
- Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
- How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
- The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of…
- I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you,…
- Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination…
- Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
- If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into…
- 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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