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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Kurt Vonnegut
Relief, Literature, Realizing

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Kurt Vonnegut
Molecules, Literature, Disease
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.210, Dial Press

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Kurt Vonnegut
Blessing, Literature
Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “Vonnegut by the Dozen”, p.21, The Nation Co. LP

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

Kurt Vonnegut
Literature, Definitions, Argument
Source: artisticactivism.org

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Kurt Vonnegut
Literature, Speak, Disappear
Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut
Art, Literature, Score

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Kurt Vonnegut
Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Kurt Vonnegut
Parent, Literature, Cradle

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

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

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