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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 34

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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

Baby, People, Analogies

The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.

Night, Views, Sea

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.164, Dial Press

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Stupidity, Causes, Reputation

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Crazy, Years, Three

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.209, Dial Press

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Truth, Quality, Flow

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.118, Dial Press

Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!

Heart, Eye, Molecules

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

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Champagne

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

Cities, Towns, Building

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Beautiful, Women, Watches

Kurt Vonnegut (1971). “Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A Play”, Delta

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

Kids, Artist, Often Is

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

America, Culture, Jazz

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Wings, Feet, Tin

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

Victim, Accidents, Fortunate

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

Baby, Slaughterhouse Five, Dull

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

Mean, Way, Reader

Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.

Way, Cigarette, Commit

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim

Slaughterhouse-Five ch. 2 (1969)

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Scientist, Hiroshima

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.47, Infobase Publishing

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

Father, Doubt, Castles

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

Nice, nice, very nice.

Nice, Very Nice

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.3, Dial Press

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Writing, Thinking, Mountain

In this world, you get what you pay for.

World, Pay, Cradle

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

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Liars, Lying, Eye

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Eye, Purpose, Ears

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

if there is a god, he sure hates people

Hate, If There Is A God, People

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.64, Penguin

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