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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 27

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I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

Phones, Cells, People

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Cost, Becoming, Welcome

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Cradle, Form, Treason

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.98, Dial Press

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

Mother, Giving, Ungrateful

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

Queens, Nice, Sleep

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

Crazy, Opportunity, Spy

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.191, Dial Press

We are what we pretend to be.

Spiritual, Drinking

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

Military, War, Squad

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Insanity, Goes On, Vandalism

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.134, Dial Press

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Sometimes, Commentary

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

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

Creativity, Bird, Wish

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.224, Penguin

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Selfish, Stories, Remember

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Teenage, Talking, Vanity

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 08, 2015

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

Tuxedos, Invited, Knows

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

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

Book

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.103, Seven Stories Press

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Literature, Speak, Disappear

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

Dream, Night, Drunk

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

Cutting, Giving, Lessons

"Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

Wife, Unhappy, Sense Of Humor

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Slaughterhouse Five, Matter, Why Me

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Usa, Matter, Treason

"A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

School, Thinking, Experience

Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.1964, Random House

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Strong, Soul, Disease

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Fall, White, People

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.47, Melville House

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

Running, School, Fire

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