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I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

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

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Kurt Vonnegut
Book, Reading, Wonderful
Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

Kurt Vonnegut
War, Reading, Long
Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

Kurt Vonnegut
Baby, Reading, Grandchildren

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Kurt Vonnegut
Couple, Book, Reading

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

Kurt Vonnegut
Reading, Here I Am, Headlines
Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.226, Random House

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut
Reading, Astrology, Government
Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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