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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
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)
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there’s nothing else he can do (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
If you can’t write clearly, you probably don’t think nearly as well as you think you do (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I’ve got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap (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. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn’t use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt’s painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider’s web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I’m simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don’t think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don’t have that feeling. I don’t have that sort of control. I’m simply becoming. I’m startled that I became a writer (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There I was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do? (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society... Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It’s a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)