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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 38

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There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

Eye, Curiosity, Pairs

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

Love You, I Love You Because, Only Love

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.218, Dial Press

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Father, Son, Someday

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Illustration, Important, Haunting

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

Atheist, Alive, Today

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

Jail, Fraud, Happened

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

Running, Thinking, Cities

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Suicide, Careers, Punctuation Marks

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Men, Checkerboard, Bokonon

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.2, Dial Press

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

Fall, Animal, Advantage

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.49, Dial Press

You become who you pretend to be.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

Ocean, Swimming, Lakes

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “A Man Without a Country”, p.12, A&C Black

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Men, Jerk, Psychotic

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.36, Penguin

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Hate, America, People

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

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

Writing, Trade, Sane

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Nice, Grateful, Slaughterhouse Five

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

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

Writing, Opportunity, Palm Sunday

Kurt Vonnegut (1981). “Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage”

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Fire, Iron, Water

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

World, Aspirin, This World

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Dream, Painter, Knows

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.137, Random House

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

War, Two, People

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

Father, Done, Bills

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

Grateful, Skills, Genius

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

Animal, Giving, Emancipation Proclamation

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

Circles, People, Black

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