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Things Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
- 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…
- There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
- 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…
- I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of…
- What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the…
- Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care…
- 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,…
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have…
- There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such…
- My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,…
- Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
- The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city…
- All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
- 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…
- Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on…
- Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle