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Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit ...
— Kurt Vonnegut
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Dr. Breed was mistaken about at least one thing: there was such a thing as ice-nice.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And please note," he went on, "that when I gave you that priceless piece of information, my fingers were crossed.
— 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
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.
— Kurt Vonnegut
God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: Make me young, make me young, make me young!
— 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
We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I didn't really steal it. I just borrowed it for all eternity
— 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
Uncritical love is the only real treasure.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Away from the sovereign territory of our nation of two, we talked like the patriotic lunatics all around us.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Life, by definition, is never still.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Like most science-fiction writers, he knew almost nothing about science.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the water I am beautiful.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
— Kurt Vonnegut
That's the attractive thing about war," said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Have a good nap, did you?" said the porter. "Yes," said Billy. "Man," said the porter, "you sure had a hard-on.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: "What makes you think you're going anywhere?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing in this book is true.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think it's important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn't imagine and execute.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If the accident will.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Leave your story outside.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
— Kurt Vonnegut
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
— Kurt Vonnegut
End of the world delight
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
— Kurt Vonnegut
So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Nobody was hurt, thank God, because both drivers were wearing seat belts. Thank God, thank God.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The cattle are lowingThe baby awakes
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There is no why.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
For reasons obvious to us all, this galaxy is dissolved!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
You are what you pretend to be so you better pretend something good.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We could have saved it, but we were too doggone cheap.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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'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
They had been the rioters, the smashers of machines.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.
— Kurt Vonnegut
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Well done, Mr. Krebbs, well done.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Make a character want something - that's how you begin.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt."Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired.
"Very good answer. — Kurt Vonnegut
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
— Christopher Moore
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Whereas the staff, of course, was devoted to the idea that weak people should be helped as much as possible, that nobody should die.
— Kurt Vonnegut
No sense in a man with writer's block going to New York.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
— 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
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.