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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 26

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What a bummer it is to be a human being.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Humanity, Being Human, Humans

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Success, Kings, Jobs

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 17, 2015

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

Writing, Thinking, Feelings

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Food, Fabulous, Kind

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Past, News, Alive

"Bluebeard". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 82, 1987.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Memorable, Persons

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.18, Penguin

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Gratitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Awful

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.131, Infobase Publishing

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

Believe, Airplane, Army

"Kurt Vonnegut". Book by James Lundquist, 1971.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

Believe, Heart, Men

"Books of The Times" by John Leonard, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1979.

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

Sex, Order, America

Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.26, Penguin

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

Amber, Bugs, Moments

"Slaughterhouse-Five".

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

Heart, Love Is, Rocks

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

Young

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.

Design, Miracle, Looks

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Life, Sex And Love, Making Love

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

Kids, Harvard

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.100, Dial Press

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Science, Mystery, Wonder

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Business, Weekend, Two

In the water I am beautiful.

Beautiful, Water, I Am Beautiful

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

Insane, Charm, Occasions

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.37, Dial Press

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Humanity, Moral, Greater

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Dream, Grandchildren, People

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.71, Seven Stories Press

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Art, Hurt, College

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Middle, Sentences

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