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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 36

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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Slapstick, Harm, Can Do

"Slapstick". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1976.

Nothing in this book is true.

Book

"Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

World, Small World, Cemetery

"Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 31, 1963.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Religious, Iowa, San Francisco

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Land, Earth, Planets

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

A man without a home can't be lost.

Life, Home, Men

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Black, Slave, Property

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

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Forgiveness, Revenge, Eye

Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

Fighting, Tanks, Division

Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.14, Penguin

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Weather, Economy

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

Tired, Pistols, Firsts

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

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

Brother, Oxygen, Band

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Compassion, Be Kind, God Bless You

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Thinking, Make You Think, Drug

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.153, Dial Press

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

People, American Universities, University

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

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Men, Earth, Helping

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

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Suicide, Son, Wells

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Teeth, Juicy, Pears

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

Men, People, Mad

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.47, Seven Stories Press

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

Children, Rocks, Color

Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.

Beautiful, Thinking, Balls

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.239, Dial Press

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

Writing, Wonder, Wells

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

Son, Southern, Saint

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

Children, Bothered, Bewitched

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

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

Daughter, Character, Stories

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.6, Infobase Publishing

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