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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 22

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Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Forgiveness, Ideas, Two

If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Nice, Grateful, Forever

Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

Eras, Century, Late

Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

War, Television, World

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

Doe, Littles, Said

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.235, Dial Press

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Beautiful, Animal, Wind

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 attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Jesus, Ideas, Suggestions

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Ends, Alright, Knows

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.177, Penguin

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

Trying, Littles, God Life

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

Dad, Thinking, Catholic

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

Who Cares, Divinity, Christ

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

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Scum Of The Earth, Saint, May

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Events, May, Explaining

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

Jobs, Believe, Heart

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.92, Dial Press

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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 of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Prayer, Wall, Past

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

Men, Dumb, Humanity

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Real, Opera, Hopeless

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.111, Random House

I 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 superstitious.

Thinking, Important, Persons

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 our apathies, but not that much.

Apathy, Enough, Said

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.22, Dial Press

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

People, Community, Causes

"Thoughts of a Free Thinker". Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (May 26, 1974), as quoted in Kurt Vonnegut "Palm Sunday", 1981.

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Teaching, Men, Hands

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

Kissing, Long Ago, Battle

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

Baby, Peace, Men

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.3, Dial Press

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Mind, Matter, Breakfast Of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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