Kurt Vonnegut Quotes


Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet Kurt Vonnegut Shakespeare 135
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut Pretending 124
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Kurt Vonnegut Humor 117
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut World 110
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books some of them very funny books reason enough to feel honored to be alive no matter what else might be going on. Kurt Vonnegut Reading 105
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 human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. Kurt Vonnegut Illusion 105
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole so to speak. Kurt Vonnegut Literary criticism 104
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. Kurt Vonnegut Insightful 102
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. Kurt Vonnegut Americans 101
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut Beware 100
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. Kurt Vonnegut Absurd 99
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. Kurt Vonnegut Humour 99
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. Kurt Vonnegut Curiosity 98
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Kurt Vonnegut Anyway 97
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Kurt Vonnegut Talent 96
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Kurt Vonnegut Called 95
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut Character 95
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut Frustration 95
in nonsense is strength Kurt Vonnegut Nonsense 93
Earthlings went on being friendly when they should have been thinking instead. Kurt Vonnegut Humans 92
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. Kurt Vonnegut Crayon 91
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. Kurt Vonnegut Music 91
If you can do a halfassed job of anything youre a oneeyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut Work 88
Mister when I see my first lady angel if God ever sees fit to show me one itll be her wings not her face thatll make my mouth fall open. Ive already seen the prettiest face that ever could be. Kurt Vonnegut Angel 88
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut Knowledge 88
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut Life 87
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. Kurt Vonnegut Satire 87
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, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise Kurt Vonnegut Consolatory 86
Jesusif Kilgore Trout could only write Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point Kilgore Trouts unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. Kurt Vonnegut Ideas 86
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut History 85
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kurt Vonnegut Big 85
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut Creativity 85
No matter how corrupt greedy and heartless our government our corporations our media and our religious amp charitable institutions may become the music will still be wonderful. Kurt Vonnegut Corruption 82
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. Kurt Vonnegut Blessing 82
So in the interests of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought that too. Kurt Vonnegut Thinking 81
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here. Kurt Vonnegut Wit 81
In the water I am beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut Reassuring 81
If you actually are an educated thinking person you will not be welcome in Washington D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. Kurt Vonnegut Politics 79
In this world you get what you pay for. Kurt Vonnegut Cat 79
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. Kurt Vonnegut Afternoon 79
Reading a novel War and Peace for example is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about. Kurt Vonnegut Reading 77
Symbols can be so beautiful sometimes. Kurt Vonnegut Beautiful 77
He didnt know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war as in love he was a fearless happygolucky adventurer. Kurt Vonnegut War 76
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them possibly because He was through with them and that they should have the good manners to die. This as you can see they did. Kurt Vonnegut Science fiction 75
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. Kurt Vonnegut Humor 75
...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 Futility 75
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. Kurt Vonnegut Life 74
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend. Kurt Vonnegut People 74
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind. Kurt Vonnegut Civilization 73
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak the oversize brain. Kurt Vonnegut Brain 73

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