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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
You can’t teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s really going on (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? ‘don’t try’ he said ‘just pretend you understand (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn’t much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world’s total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
I’m wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don’t make memories like that anymore (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn’t own doodley-squat, so they couldn’t improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device! (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
Don’t worry about your father. He’s a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars (Kurt Vonnegut Quotes)