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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I was clasified as a ‘Science Fiction’ writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren’t much good against tanks. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
What’s going to happen is, very soon, we’re going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
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 Quotes)
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse’s ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
In the middle of Siberia I guess there’s a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
If people think nature is their friend then they sure don’t need an enemy (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I myself grew up when radio was very important. I’d come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can’t. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
If you appear in the ‘Atlantic’ or ‘Harper’s’ or the ‘New Yorker,’ by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it’s a much better argument against foxholes. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There is no good reason good can’t triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman’s profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I would have been dead if it weren’t for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
It couldn’t have been gonorrhea, which never stops eating you up of its own accord. Why should it ever stop of its own accord? It’s having such a nice time. Why call off the party? Look how healthy and happy the kids are. (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I wish you’d help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)