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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 29

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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Insightful, Victim, Accidents

The Sirens of Titan ch. 10 (1959)

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Art, Way, Breakfast Of Champions

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

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Years, Equal

Kurt Vonnegut, Pat Cook (1993). “The Handicapper General”, p.34, Dramatic Publishing

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Character, People, Might

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Opening line, 1965.

The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

Air, Umpires, Enemy

KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Judging, Care, Doe

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.29, Random House

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

Book, Adventure, Profound

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

Love You, Mean, Gun

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

War, Believe, Glaciers

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.144, Infobase Publishing

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

Jesus, Revenge, Squares

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

Father, Cities, America

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

Lust, Rust, Love And Lust

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Brain, Made, Instigators

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

New York, Past, Car

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Wife, Males, Looks

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.107, Penguin

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

Writing, Character, Glasses

"Uncovering the secrets of storytelling" by Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Couple, Years, Wife

Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

War, Government, Drug

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

Home, School, Play

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.138, Melville House

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Religious, People, Wish

Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

Struggle Between Good And Evil, Organization, Mafia

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.167, Dial Press

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Home, Turtles, Underwater

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.7, Random House

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