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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 3

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If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Jesus, Ideas, Progress

Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Thinking, People, Use

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

Practice, Astonishment, Disorder

"A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2005.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Please, Optimistic Life, Crowning Glory

Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Writing, College, Creative

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

Suicide, Smoking, Form

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Stupid, Blow, Brain

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.59, Penguin

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

Writing, Thinking, Wells

Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.8, Penguin

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

War, Grandchildren, Merchandising

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.71, Dial Press

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

Children, Men, Evil

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.64, RosettaBooks

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

Real, Party, Two

Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.17, Delacorte Press

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Cutting, Age, Superstitions

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.66, Penguin

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

Smoking, Suing, Three

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Book, Eye, Eight

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.133, Seven Stories Press

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Creative, Evolution, Giraffe

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

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

Mean, Thinking, People

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

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Bitterness

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Funny, Real, Humorous

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

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

Hate, Believe, Laughing

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

War, Men, Voice

"Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Funny, Smile, Laughter

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

People, Firsts, Bigs

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.84, Dial Press

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art, Hurt, Writing

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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