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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 2

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Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Life, Writing, Creativity

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Summer, Baby, Hipster

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

Time, Nice, Smart

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Running, Hate, Long

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Creating, Soul, Tonight

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

Two, Trout, Purpose

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Secret, Endeavor, Concentration

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Clever, People, World

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.69, Random House

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Nuts, President, Done

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.51, RosettaBooks

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Life, Beautiful, Faith

Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Survivor, Never Trust, Know How

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

Wise, Hate, Men

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

Christian, Religious, Mean

Kurt Vonnegut (2001). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Twists

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 01, 2014

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Country, Book, Names

"A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Funny, Mad, Water

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Reading, Believe, Writing

Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Apology, Drunk, Environmental

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Feelings, Feeling Sad, Matter

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Atheist, Thinking, People

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

Life, Wells

Science is magic that works.

Magic

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.218, Dial Press

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Art, Way, Breakfast Of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Lying, Writing, Shameless

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

People, Tomorrow, Ifs

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