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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 31

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Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Being Yourself, Unique, Editors

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

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

Prayer, People, Would Be

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

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

Gun, Nuts, Crow

History! Read it and weep!

History

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.29, Infobase Publishing

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

Beautiful, Looks, Way

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.178, Penguin

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.

Running, Lying, Thinking

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Technology, United States, Machines

"Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

Hero, Pits, Parks

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

Outsiders, British, Colony

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

Dust, Judging, Important

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Names, Slaughterhouse Five, Dignity

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

School, Kids, Simple

Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Complicated, Cradle, Machinery

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

Way, Classic, Victim

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Get Well, Recovery, Sick

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.148, Penguin

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

People, Feels, Entitled

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

Thinking

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.151, Dial Press

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

War, Casualties, Ends

"The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Daniel Stern and Barbara Stone, www.robertcaro.com.

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

Believe, Writing, Offering

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Heart, World, Pay

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

in nonsense is strength

Nonsense

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

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

Wise, Men, Thinking

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.256, Dial Press

Love is where you find it.

Life, Love Is

See the cat? See the cradle?

Cat, Cradle, Cats Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.179, Dial Press

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Pain, Thinking, Thank God

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