Mother Night Quotes

• We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Long, New Life, Rooms

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.80, Dial Press

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• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Fighting, Imagine

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 21, 2015

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, Fighting

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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.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

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

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• Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.251, Dial Press

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• The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, War, Gentleman

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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• ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Believe, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

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• All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Insane, Looks

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

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• Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Atheist, Crazy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

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• Make love when you can. It's good for you.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Sex And Love, Making Love

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Reason, Plenty

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.251, Dial Press

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• Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Missing, Teeth

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• Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Opportunity, Spy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.191, Dial Press

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• What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Curiosity

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

  Helena Maria Viramontes

  Writing, Way, Praying

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• I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Team, Way, Dexter Morgan

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• Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

  Tony Fadell

  Way, Dexter Morgan, Norwegian Wood

  "Q&A: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, on making home products cool". Interview with Dana Hull, www.mercurynews.com. October 18, 2013.

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• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Death, Short Circuit

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Aspirin, This World

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• Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

  Anne Bishop

  Mother, Night, Darkness

  Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.206, Penguin

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• But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Night, Punishment

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• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  Connie Chung

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

  Marsha Norman

  Mother, Night, Long

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• After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'

  Marsha Norman

  Mother, Writing, Night

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