Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 13

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• Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

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  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

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  Memorable, Men, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

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  Daughter, Children, Ignorance

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.92, Penguin

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• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

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  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

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  People, Facts, Action

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

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  Government, People, Television

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

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  Life, Would Be

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.67, Seven Stories Press

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• 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?

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  Freedom, Writing, Perfect

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.187, Dial Press

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• . . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

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  People, Awful, Rooms

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.

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  Art, War, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

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  Believe, Intelligent, Evil

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• She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

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  People, Too Much, Moments

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press

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• The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

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  Country, War, Believe

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

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• The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

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  Real, Party, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.17, Delacorte Press

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• That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

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  Answers, Firsts, Make Sense

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

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  Scum Of The Earth, Saint, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin

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• We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

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  Young

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• Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

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  Science, Awful, Situation

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.98, Penguin

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• Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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  Looks, Sometimes, Wonder

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press

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• ... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

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  Sweet, Humanity, Planets

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

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  Hands, Astrology, People

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• 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.

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  Class, Unions, Franklin

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• I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

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  Reality, Hair, Yale

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.99, Seven Stories Press

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• His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

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  Mother, World, Illness

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.257, Dial Press

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Writing, Character

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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