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Kurt Vonnegut
American
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About the author
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Right
#Wonder
#Poor
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Earth
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 things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Want
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#People
#Enemy
#Friend
#Nature
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Poor
#Evolution
#Survival
#Glory
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Will
#Cancer
#Cure
#Prejudice
#Utopia
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Man
#Job
#Blind
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Parents
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Man
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Laughter
#Tears
#Frustration
#Exhaustion
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#God
#People
#Church
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 about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#People
#Care
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#War
#Pretty
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Universe
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Disappointment
#Laughter
#Maturity
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#May
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Country
#School
#Terror
#Class
#Running
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Earth
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 terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#People
#Today
#Disease
#Loneliness
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Freedom
#Writer
#Living
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#People
#Possibilities
#Astrology
#Birthday
#Communism
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 example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Life
#Feeling
#Example
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 anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut,
American
Author
#Talk
#People
#Voice
#Order