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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut

I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them. — Kurt Vonnegut

Unk, you crazy son-of-a-bitch, I love you. I think you are the cat's pajamas. — Kurt Vonnegut

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). — Kurt Vonnegut

Did you or did you not say that the United States was a crock of doo-doo? — Kurt Vonnegut

Thus do I capitalize years as though they were proper names. — Kurt Vonnegut

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. — Kurt Vonnegut

Money is dehydrated mercy. If you have plenty of it, you just add tears, and people come out of the woodwork to comfort you. — Kurt Vonnegut

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors. — Kurt Vonnegut

... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. — Kurt Vonnegut

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are. — Kurt Vonnegut

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. — Kurt Vonnegut

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away. — Kurt Vonnegut

I can have oodles of charm when I want to. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. — Kurt Vonnegut

He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard. — Kurt Vonnegut

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. — Kurt Vonnegut

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. — Kurt Vonnegut

A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. — Kurt Vonnegut

We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party. — Kurt Vonnegut

The bank balance was Noel Constant's share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds. — Kurt Vonnegut

We could have saved it, but we were too doggone cheap. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. — Kurt Vonnegut

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight. — Kurt Vonnegut

You are what you pretend to be so you better pretend something good. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon? — Kurt Vonnegut

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no why. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The cattle are lowing
The baby awakes
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For reasons obvious to us all, this galaxy is dissolved! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? — Kurt Vonnegut

Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything. — Kurt Vonnegut

Trout was deflated - neutralized. He dropped his arms, became child-like now. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials. — Kurt Vonnegut

And then he shot himself, making room for all three of his children. — Kurt Vonnegut