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We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You're not a bad sort, you know, " he said, "particularly when you forget who you are. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I don't have nerve enough to commit suicide," she said, "so I might as well do anything anybody says - in the service of mankind." *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What we have created instead, as customers and employers and investors, is mountains of paper wealth so enormous that a handful of people in charge of them can take millions and billions for themselves without hurting anyone. Apparently.
Many members of my generation are disappointed. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You want to know why I don't have AIDS, why I'm not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don't fuck around. It's as simple as that. Trout -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If a man has but one child," said the Senator, "and the family is famous for producing unusual, strong-willed individuals, what standards can the man have for deciding whether or not his child is a nut? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Too many of us treat guns with genial familiarity. Guns should give us the heebie-jeebies. They are killing machines. That is all they are. We should dread them the way we dread cancer and cyanide and electric chairs. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We are what we imagine ourselves to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything is nothing, with a twist. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Somebody made everything for some reason. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Science is magic that works. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
and she said, 'So there you are!' She asked Frank what he thought he was doing, and he said, 'Experimenting.' That's what Frank always used to say when people asked him what he thought he was doing. He always said, 'Experimenting.'
(p. 15) -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They were grainy things, soot and chalk. They could have been anybody. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
God damn it, you've got to be kind. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was doing nothing less now, he thought, than prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls. So many of those souls were lost and wretched, Billy believed, because they could not see as well as his little green friends on Tralfamadore. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I thought the worst of everyone. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
nervously. "I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I'm to the point where a mere whim is a blockbuster. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nobody else suspected that he was going crazy. Everybody else thought he looked fine and was acting fine. Now he was in the hospital. The doctors agreed; He was going crazy. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Among the many queer things about the American economy is this: A writer can get more money for a bungling speech at a bankrupt college than he can get for a short-story masterpiece. What's more, he can sell the speech over and over again, and no one complains. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To be dead and to eat at the same time. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Whatever we've said, friends, we're saying still-- such as it was, such as it is, such as it will be -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a single idea I hadn't swiped from somebody else and enunciated plonkingly by the time I reached the seventh grade. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You stake a guy out on an anthill in the desert - see? He's facing upward, and you put honey all over his balls and pecker, and you cut off his eyelids so he has to stare at the sun till he dies." So it goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What kind of an animal would do such a thing? The old me, I think. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That you admire pure hearts and heroes, that you love good and evil, and that you believe in romance. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What did The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Uncle Tom's Cabin and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and all that have to do with our present enthusiasm for women's rights? Not that much, really. Women just got lucky this time. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I'd had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn't killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?' -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I am a human being, not a human doing. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
sinookas, the tendrils of my life, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.'
... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ;the Prince of Peace. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Pay no attention when I laugh," I begged him. "I'm a notorious pervert in that respect. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nowhere has the number zero been more of philosophical value -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Where would you rather be tomorrow - on Mars or in the Kingdom of Heaven? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I guess all the excitement in bed had more to do with excitement about keeping the human race going than anybody ever imagined. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There is no why. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was about to be attacked by a Doberman pinscher. He was a leading character in an earlier version of this book. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Of course you're right. It's just a hell of a time to be alive, is all - just this goddamn messy business of people having to get used to new ideas. And people just don't, that's all. I wish this were a hundred years from now, with everybody used to the change. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We're here on Earth to fart around -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
She was a tiny girl - a trinket brunette, very pretty, very pale, and hard as nails. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They had been the rioters, the smashers of machines. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I actually supervised Felix," he said, "then I'm ready now to take charge of volcanoes, the tides, and the migrations of bird and lemmings. The man was a force of nature no mortal could possibly control. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everybody on earth was a robot, with one exception - Dwayne Hoover. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
if there is a god, he sure hates people -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Be patient, Ophelia.
Love,
Hamlet -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mushari didn't see anything funny in that. He never saw anything funny in anything, so deeply immured was he by the utterly unplayful spirit of the law. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Well done, Mr. Krebbs, well done. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When you're dead you're dead. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything Rumfoord did he did with style, making all mankind look good. Everything Constant did he did in style - aggressively, loudly, childishly, wastefully - making himself and mankind look bad. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Money can be a great comfort sometimes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
in nonsense is strength -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A dinosaur was a reptile -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
only nutcases want to be president. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Terry Kitchen said that the only moments he ever experienced as non-epiphanies, when God left him alone, were those following sex and the two times he took heroin. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For having the courage to tell the truth during the war when everybody else was telling lies -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He asked McCabe to outlaw him and his religion, too, in order to give the religious life of the people more zest, more tang. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
stationery of Magnum Opus, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Gee - I could tell that one was a doozy," said Hazel. "You can say that again," said George. "Gee - " said Hazel, "I could tell that one was a doozy. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
TV is an eraser. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. I -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unhappy failures need not apply. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In honor of the marriage that worked, I include in this collection a sickeningly slick love story from The Ladies' Home Journal, God help us, entitled by them "The Long Walk to Forever." The title I gave it, I think, was "Hell to Get Along With. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one nds and old people's legs at the other -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To put it another way: No matter what a young person thinks he or she is really hot stuff at doing, he or she is sooner or later going to run into somebody in the same field who will cut him or her a new asshole, so to speak. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We could have saved it, but we were too doggone cheap. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You are yet another nincompoop, who, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, "was able to set humanitarianism back a full century! Begone!" Strong stuff. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Back when childhoods were often so protracted, it is unsurprising that so many people got into the lifelong habit of believing, even after their parents were gone, that somebody was always watching over them - God or a saint or a guardian angel or the stars or whatever. People -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The density and permanence of the mansion were, of course, at ironic variance with the fact that the quondam master of the house, except for one hour in every fifty-nine days, was no more substantial than a moonbeam. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Time passed quickly. Constant did not move. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors, and in those of the foreman, who alone was without a lunchbox. A -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Time-traveling again?" said Montana. It was artificial evening in the dome. She was breastfeeding their child. "Hmm?" said Billy. "You've been time-traveling again. I can always tell. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Like most science-fiction writers, he knew almost nothing about science. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Only my complacent Mona crossed the crack with a simple step . . .
She wasn't depressed or angry. In fact, she seemed to verge on laughter. 'He always said he would never take his own advice, because he knew it was worthless. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Just 'cause something makes you feel better than anything else, that don't mean it's good for you. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
While bachelors are lonely people, I'm convinced that married men are lonely people with dependents. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I do realize that I am a very slow realizer. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Flashlight beams danced crazily -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There had been no black people on the household staff of the McCone mansion in Cleveland, no black people in my schools. Not even when I was a communist had I had a black person for a friend. Near -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward - like flannel pajamas that hadn't been changed for a month, or like Irish stew. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
How embarrassing it is to be human. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Eliot had only one pair of shoes, black ones. They had a crackle finish as a result of an experiment. Eliot once tried to polish them with Johnson's Glo-Coat, which was a floorwax, not intended for shoes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I see England,
I see France;
I see a little girl's
Underpants! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And we built up between ourselves a pathetic sort of domesticity that we both felt need of. We began tasting our food again, making little discoveries in grocery stores, bringing them home to share. When strawberries came in season, I remember, Kraft and I whooped it up as though Jesus had returned. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics and government lived side by side, but touched almost nowhere. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: "What makes you think you're going anywhere? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He had a dazzling talent for spending millions without increasing mankind's stores of anything but chagrin. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was sentenced to six months in prison. He died there of pneumonia. So it goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Weary drew back his right boot, aimed a kick at the spine, at the tube which had so many of Billy's important wires in it. Weary was going to break that tube. But -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Forgive him- he knows not what he does. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Egdar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sons of suicides seldom do well. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And now it appears to me that the tale I have to tell, spanning a million years, doesn't change all that much from beginning to end. In the beginning, as in the end, I find myself speaking of human beings, regardless of their brain size, as fisherfolk. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Thank you, sir," said the hostess. "Your city thanks you; your country thanks you; your planet thanks you. But the deepest thanks of all is from future generations. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This is my first visit." "It's -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She didn't call it an "atomic bomb." She called it "the monster of Frankenstein. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Little Newt snorted. "Religion!"
"Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Don't truth me, [...] and I won't truth you. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The river was the Hudson. There were carp in there and we saw them. They were as big as atomic submarines. We saw waterfalls, too, streams jumping off cliffs into the valley of the Delaware. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The question is, rather, whether or not America is to enter a new and distressing phase of history where men no longer pursue happiness but buy it. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They had found a can of white paint, and on the front doors of the cab Frank had painted white stars, and on the roof he had painted the letters of a granfalloon: U.S.A. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To all my friends and enemies in the buckeye state. Come on over. There's room for everybody in Shangri-La. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
How embarrassing to be human. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You are entitled to wonder. I'm not. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And I became a non-person in the Boston fog, and Lufthansa put me in a limousine with other non-persons and sent us to a motel for a non-night. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
History! Read it and weep! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All Knowles had to do to close the door and get us to the first floor was to press a button, but he wasn't going to do that yet. He wasn't going to do it, maybe, for years. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Whoever it was - he was one of the most vicious sons of bitches who ever lived. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The twelve sides were said by the architect to represent the twelve great religions of the world. So far, no one had asked the architect to name them. That was lucky, because he couldn't have done it. There -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment. And I suspect that some of the guesses made by our ancestors are partly responsible for the starved bodies and spirits we see everywhere. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Write it all down," Bokonon tells us. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
One of the first things I discovered when I became an agent was that I couldn't afford an imagination any more -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Fucking was how babies were made. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People are unkind sometimes without meaning to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To be punctual meant to exist as a point, meant that as well as to arrive somewhere on time. Constant existed as a point - could not imagine what it would, be like to exist in any other way. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Money is dehydrated utopia. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitions. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Re-search means look again, don't it? Means they're looking for something they found once and it got away somehow, and now they got to re-search for it. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many illiterates as there are people of Armenian descent anywhere! So many of them and so few of us! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Hooray for the good people of Genoa -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Early supper" meant early drinking too. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen, who were proud of fighting pure evil at the time." This -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I had to laugh like hell -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Western Civilization rests on great men, and nothing else. And we are no longer producing great men. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It is never a mistake to say good-bye. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I here violate direct and explicit orders that were given to me, were given to me in the best interests of the United States of America. I here give you my true name, and I identify myself as the man you knew as "Frank Wirtanen." ... I exist. I can be seen, heard, and touched almost any day. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That's a fugging shame, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dr. Breed was mistaken about at least one thing: there was such a thing as ice-nice. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The major point at which his reason and his sense of humor left him was when he approached the question of what people were really supposed to do with their time on Earth. He -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This isn't a man. It's a broken kite. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I can have oodles of charm when I want to. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I guess Americans are hated a lot of places. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I don't give a damn if he is [glad to hear it] or not. This is something between Jesus and me. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm not a soldier, not a political man. I'm an artist. If war comes, I won't do anything to help it along. If war comes, it'll find me still working at my peaceful trade. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It said a lot of things [...] because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what it was like to be something else, to be something else and proud of it. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He wished to seem harmless and shy. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Many, many good things have I bought! Many, many bad things have I fought! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When my tantrum, which is what I call my TV set, flashes boobs and smiles in my face, and says everybody but me is going to get laid tonight, and this is a national emergency, so I've got to rush out and buy a car or pills, or a folding gymnasium I can hide under my bed, I laugh like a hyena. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Eperience of the Past Million Years?' nothing. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They looked identical to Billy - because their sex differences were all in the fourth dimension. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He was finally understanding that every bit of it had been real! He had been calm in the midst of the mob because he knew he wasn't going to die on Earth. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Skyscraper National Park -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Why me?" he asked the guard. The guard shoved him back into ranks. "Vy you? Vy anybody?" he said. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Well," said Ruth, when the sounds of the bells had died away, "when you eight-year-olds kill Evil here in Nuremberg, be sure to bury it at a crossroads and drive a stake through its heart - or you just might see it again at the next full moooooooooooooooooon. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It takes a heap of living to make a house a home -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
and what sunshine are you going to bring into our lives today? Shall we poison the well or burn the house down? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight of a bubble from the lips. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can ask, but you surely know I won't tell you -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
So many crimes committed by lonesome people in Government are concealed in this place," I said, "that the inscription might well read, 'Better a Family of Criminals than No Family at All. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was a writer on Cape Cod. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the water I am beautiful. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It's just a hell of a time to be alive, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Go take a flying fuck at the moon. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
How did I get so old? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
God never wrote a good play in his life. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He found, moreover, that he still knew how to take the weapon apart. That much of his memory, at any rate, had not been wiped out at the hospital. It made him furtively happy to suspect that there were probably other parts of his memory that had been missed as well. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Hazel's obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The phrase reeked of cannibalism. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This can be useful in rocketry. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This wearied me, but then, almost everything about the modern world wearies me. I -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The fact that human beings are now the only animals left on Earth, I confess, seems a confusing sort of victory. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People are too good for this world. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everybody should be buried with somebody else, just about anybody else, whenever feasible. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For reasons obvious to us all, this galaxy is dissolved! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Maybe he really did have a very rich secret life," I suggested.
"Nah."
"Nah," sneered the bartender. "He was just one of those kids who made model airplanes and jerked off all the time. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dwayne's only companion at night was a Labrador retriever named Sparky. Sparky could not wag his tail - because of an automobile accident many years ago, so he had no way of telling other dogs how friendly he was. He had to fight all the time. His ears were in tatters. He was lumpy with scars. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The white men wouldn't do it either, of course. They called it women's work, and the women called it Nigger work. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
As three unwavering bands of light, we were simple and separate and beautiful. As
machines, we were flabby bags of ancient plumbing and wiring, of rusty hinges and
feeble springs. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I somersaulted lazily and pleasantly through the void, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
See the cat? See the cradle? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No damn cat, no damn Cradle. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You have to go, but I have to stay. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No," said Trout, "for delighting Jesus Christ by shooting dead a doctor coming to work in an
abortion mill. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And the lawyers! Of course, I say it's a pretty good thing what happened to them, because it was a bad thing for them, which couldn't help to be a good thing for everybody else. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No damn cat, and no damn cradle. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You are what you pretend to be so you better pretend something good. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It's nice to be nice. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The orgastic moment for me is when I hand a manuscript to my publisher and say, 'Here! I'm all through with it. I never want to see it again,'" she said. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I am a brother to writers everywhere. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care. A -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The cattle are lowing
The baby awakes
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The horse jumped over the fucking fence. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me ignorant and rootless as proof of their patriotism. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating Craig's Ice Cream -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Just because something can reproduce, that doesn't mean it should reproduce. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I believed back then that sperm, if not ejaculated, was reprocessed by healthy males into substances which made them athletic, merry, brave and creative. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Americans have finally heard about Dresden," said Rumfoord, twenty-three years after the raid. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All men are jerks, all women are psychotic. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life is no way to treat an animal. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This moment and every moment lasts forever. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was thrilled, heartbroken, hilarious, insane. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm in the middle of a sentence," I said. "Who isn't?" she -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
my father said, "when in dount, castle -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My name is Yon Yonson,
I work in Wisconsin -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That's the worst thing you can do, Unk - remembering back," said Brackman. "That's what they put you in the hospital for in the first place - on account of you remembered too much. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you can do no good, at least do no harm. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as fast as the rules of chess. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My lawyer, a mere stripling, has paid me a call. Since I have no money, the Federal Government is paying him to protect me from injustice. Moreover, I cannot be tortured or otherwise compelled to testify against myself. What a Utopia! Among -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And so it goes... -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To me, wanting every habitable planet to be inhabited is like wanting everybody to have athlete's foot. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
job left vacant two weeks ago by death - the managership of the Pittsburgh Works. "How gay can a party get? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The hinged clogs were transforming his feet into blood puddings. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He will not hate. He will not kill. There's hope in that. There's no hope in war. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Until you die .. it's all life. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lonesome, no more! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Like roses and mustard gas. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Give me knowledge or give me death. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I could carve a better man out of a banana. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To be perfectly frank, his ding-dong wouldn't have been what you might call the subject of an exhaustive search. Albert -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He could scarcely distinguish between sleep and wakefulness now, on the third day, found no important differences, either, between walking and standing still. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Fern showed him an organizational plan that had the name Magnum Opus, Incorporated. It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There was more. There was always more. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nice, nice, very nice. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was a United States citizen who had been granted political asylum in Sweden. Yes, -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The past is prologue! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This is Kurt Vonnegut in the effing state-of-the-art lethal injection facility in Huntsville, effing, Texas signing off. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full of hell -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I agree that all religions, including Bokononism, are nothing but lies. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And so on to infinity -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
His fingers made the string figure called a 'cat's cradle. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Goodbye blue Monday. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
twenty in number, ranging in age from sixteen -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It went bust," said Uncle Alex, with a certain grim, Darwinian satisfaction. My -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It was be a hermit or open a hotel-. -with nothing in between. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It's embarrassing to be human. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
there was such a thing as ice-nine. And -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It snapped in juicy protest. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This was in a country where everybody was expected to pay his own bills for everything, and one of the most expensive things a person could do was get sick. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The function of art is to make people like life more than they do. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The champagne was dead. So it goes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I got into some perfectly beautiful trouble -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Hardly anyone in the world is an American -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tiger got to hunt -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Don't kiss me now - here comes somebody. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It's fresh to you because you're too young to know anything but the way things are now.
Actually, it is kind of incredible that things were ever any other way, isn't it? -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Brothers Karamazov -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dammit, you've got to be kind. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything that ever was always will be, and everything that ever will be always was. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
This was where babies came from. *** -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And where there's life - There is life. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ting-a-ling mother fucker. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People aren't supposed to look back. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No trouble. There really isn't a heck of a lot to the job. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All this happened, more or less. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If the accident will. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing in this book is true. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For some reason, the less you pay for a watch, the surer you can be that it will never stop. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
End of the world delight -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Potential terrorist is a terrorist -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I fry mine in butter! -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Busy, busy, busy. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can learn all kinds of habits quickly under martial law. The -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
