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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 30

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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Father, Self, Worry

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.70, Dial Press

Until you die .. it's all life.

Dies

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

Writing, Thinking, Fool

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

Bird, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

...Skyscraper National Park

New York, National Parks, Parks

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.8, Penguin

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Winning, Ideas, Profound

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

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Business, Writing, Management

Unhappy failures need not apply.

Unhappy, Needs

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

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Art, Hate, School

Source: artisticactivism.org

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

Dancing, Lessons

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Writing, Citizenship, Good Citizenship

"Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut".

What memories for mud to have.

Memories, Mud

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Realizing, Courses

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

Simple, Naked, Understood

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Society, Novelists, Bears

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

Bridges, Owl, Stories

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.7, Seven Stories Press

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Couple, Book, Reading

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Brain, Looks, Stories

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

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

Night, Years, Rose

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

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

Writing, Want, Wells

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

Reading, Here I Am, Headlines

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.226, Random House

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Cheerful, Reason, Yacht

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.186, Dial Press

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

War, Musician, Cards

"Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

Kids, Past, Alive

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

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

School, Echoes, Parent

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