Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 6

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• There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

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  Love, Life, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.18, Dial Press

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• The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

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  People, Together, Useless

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

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  Want, Firsts, Break

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• The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

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  Writing, People, Stories

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• Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

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  People, Rich, Poor

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.146, Penguin

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• Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

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  Tired, Exercise, Yale

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• 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.

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

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• My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

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  Religious, Jesus, Acknowledge

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

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  Fire, Perfectly Normal, Ordinary

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

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• Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

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  War, Artist, Men

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• People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

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  Uncles, Lying, Thinking

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

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• During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

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  Country, War, Artist

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

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  Fun, Animal, Years

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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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• THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

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  Years, Law, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Apr 10, 2016

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• The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?

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  Country, Lying, Past

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• How embarrassing it is to be human.

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  Embarrassing, Humans

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• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

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  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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• Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

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  Thinking, Humanity, Humans

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.41, Penguin

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• Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

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  Government, People, Drunk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.169, Penguin

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• I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

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  Art, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

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• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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  Giving, Earth Day, Environmental

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• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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  Healing, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

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  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

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  Christian, Taken, Government

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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