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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 33

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It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

Nice, Glasses, Ends

"Kurt Vonnegut is back on top", www.today.com. September 15, 2005.

Be fruitful, and multiply.

Stephen King, Greg Bear, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Carmen Maria Machado (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.197, Courier Dover Publications

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

Writing, Mean, Math

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Pain, Writing, Race

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

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Earth, Surface, Fertile

Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

Guy, Matter, Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.310, Dial Press

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Atheism, Foxholes, Chaplains

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

Hurt, Mean, Trout

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

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Children, Growing Up, Order

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.265, Dial Press

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Life, Music, God

FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 11, 2015

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

Years, Tonight, Hopes And Fears

I never asked to be born in the first place.

Firsts, Born

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.74, Penguin

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Be Good, Gods Will, Fooled

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.155, Random House

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

People, Slaughterhouse Five, Looks

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

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Writing, Character, Want Something

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

Girl, Nice, Party

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

Strong, Real, Artist

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

Country, War, Artist

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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

Heaven, My Favorite, Should

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.80, Seven Stories Press

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

Brother, Forgiven, Living Things

Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

Fighting, Reason, Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.251, Dial Press

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Life, Honour, Better Now

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Gun, Zippers, Slaughterhouse Five

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.51, Infobase Publishing

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Veterans Day, Sacred, Breakfast Of Champions

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

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Life, Love Is, Thinking

"Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Prologue), 1976.

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