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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime. — Kurt Vonnegut

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's all like an ocean! cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane. — Kurt Vonnegut

The difference between my fans and Kurt's is that my fans know they're mentally ill. — Kurt Vonnegut

What rioters, out of control, are really protesting about is life itself. Most people do not like it, it's humiliating for almost everyone. — Kurt Vonnegut

Billy's Christ died horribly. He was pitiful. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Screw you, Jasper," said Castle mildly, "and screw Mother's Day and Christmas, too. — Kurt Vonnegut

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Keeping big secrets, particularly secrets about things of one's own doing, is a tough proposition for even very bright people. — Kurt Vonnegut

When machines start delivering themselves," I said, "I guess that's when the people better start really worrying. — Kurt Vonnegut

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think! — 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

You boys ain't got it so bad," he said to his rigid squadmates. "You oughta see how we treat the generals, if you think you's bad off. — Kurt Vonnegut

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud! — Kurt Vonnegut

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up. — Kurt Vonnegut

Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you. — Kurt Vonnegut

A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause. — Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. — Kurt Vonnegut

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Keep breathing," said Ben. "That's the big thing for now."
"Money Talks — Kurt Vonnegut

Every character has to want something, even if it's only a glass of water. — Kurt Vonnegut

And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead. — Kurt Vonnegut

May I ask you a highly personal question?"
"It's what life does all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold. — Kurt Vonnegut

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut

So long, old pal. You're going to a different world now. It's sure to be a better one, since no other world could be as bad as this one is. — Kurt Vonnegut

You want to know why I don't have AIDS, why I'm not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don't fuck around. It's as simple as that. Trout — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried. — Kurt Vonnegut

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side, — Kurt Vonnegut

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. — Kurt Vonnegut

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it babies, you've go to be kind". — Kurt Vonnegut

How could I ever trust a man who's been as good a spy as you have? — Kurt Vonnegut

Only in books do we learn what's really going on. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me's private. I'm surprised anyone's able to understand a word I say. — Kurt Vonnegut

Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. — Kurt Vonnegut

Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five — Ruzbeh Babaee

It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death — Kurt Vonnegut

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure. — Ruth Ozeki

The white men wouldn't do it either, of course. They called it women's work, and the women called it Nigger work. *** — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

And where there's life - There is life. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. — Kurt Vonnegut

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut

The fat woman's expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking. — Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe it's different chemicals that different countries eat that makes people act in different ways at different times, — Kurt Vonnegut

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. — Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. — Kurt Vonnegut

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody's so damn well educated that you can't learn ninety per cent of what he knows in six weeks. The other ten per cent is decoration. — Kurt Vonnegut

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. — Kurt Vonnegut

Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks,
For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks! — Kurt Vonnegut

To me, wanting every habitable planet to be inhabited is like wanting everybody to have athlete's foot. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is - it's revenge. — 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

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating Craig's Ice Cream — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

He will not hate. He will not kill. There's hope in that. There's no hope in war. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? — Kurt Vonnegut

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's all such crap," she said. "I find this magazine called People in garbage cans," she said, "but it isn't about people. It's about crap. — Kurt Vonnegut

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God. — Kurt Vonnegut

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. — 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

I think it's important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. — Kurt Vonnegut

That man's got a lot of get up and go," said Anita.
"He fills me full of lie down and die," said Paul. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Make a character want something - that's how you begin. — Kurt Vonnegut

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. — Christopher Moore

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

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

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

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

There's only one rule I know of: You've got to be kind. — Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking the guy up ahead knows what he's doing is the most dangerous religion there is. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. — Kurt Vonnegut

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite. — 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

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

There's only one rule I know of - Goddam it, you've got to be kind. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut

I thought this was trash.
Of course it's trash! says Bokonon. — Kurt Vonnegut

But that's fetishism, I think, writing books to write books. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's just a hell of a time to be alive, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

To me it's as though you called me up out of the blue on a day like any other day, and asked me if I was grown up yet. — Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's nice to be nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's embarrassing to be human. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There was absolutely nothing, not even nothing. And then there was this great Big Bang. And that's where all this crap came from. — Kurt Vonnegut

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. — Kurt Vonnegut

As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.
Tango — Kurt Vonnegut

That's a fugging shame, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.