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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.

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

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

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! — 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

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

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

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat. — Kurt Vonnegut

Aren't the gorges beautiful? This year, two girls jumped into one holding hands. They didn't get into the sorority they wanted. They wanted Tri-Delt. — 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

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Have a good nap, did you?" said the porter. "Yes," said Billy. "Man," said the porter, "you sure had a hard-on. — Kurt Vonnegut

That's the attractive thing about war," said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something. — Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. — 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

Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In the water I am beautiful. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Life, by definition, is never still. — Kurt Vonnegut

Away from the sovereign territory of our nation of two, we talked like the patriotic lunatics all around us. — Kurt Vonnegut

Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut

Just because I believe in evolution doesn't mean I have to approve of it — Kurt Vonnegut

Like most science-fiction writers, he knew almost nothing about science. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Uncritical love is the only real treasure. — Kurt Vonnegut

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — 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

There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again. — Kurt Vonnegut

What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations — Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing in this book is true. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Nobody was hurt, thank God, because both drivers were wearing seat belts. Thank God, thank God. — 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

The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: "What makes you think you're going anywhere? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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.

Well done, Mr. Krebbs, well done. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason. — Kurt Vonnegut

For reasons obvious to us all, this galaxy is dissolved! — 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

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

There is no why. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

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

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

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

It's probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well. — Mark 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. — 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

It's a small world," I observed. "When you put it in a cemetery, it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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