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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 37

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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Soldier, Looks, Flamingos

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

Cheer, Written

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

War, Slaughterhouse Five, Literature

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

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

Army, Feelings, Soldier

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Goes On, Argument

"Jailbird". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 24, 1979.

Never index your own book.

Book

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Real, Believe, Hero

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.142, Random House

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

God, People, Sirens

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

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

Mistake, Bye, Bokonon

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Life Is, Jokes, Knows

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

Thinking, Sight, Two

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.86, Dial Press

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Writing, People, Decline

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

Beautiful, Girl, Beautiful Girl

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Ideas, Pay, Attention

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Writing, Brain, Way

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

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Men, Knowing, Cradle

"Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Father, War, Teaching

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Husband, Father, War

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

Civilization, Gasoline, Chemistry

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.112, Penguin

Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

Love You, Kids, Parent

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

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

Jobs, Real, People

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.161, Penguin

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Change, Rome, Built

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.75, Dial Press

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!

Should, Be Careful, Careful

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Couple, Stories, May

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.81, Penguin

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