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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].




Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.




Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain."

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.




Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases."

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman."

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 Jr. Quotes: "The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.




Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same."

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway."

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?"

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about."

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could."

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C."

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.




Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did."

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore."

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward."

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes."

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so."

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand."

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes."

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself."

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]"

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'."

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

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



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra"

To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind."

I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice, And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise."

I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice, And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college."

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question."

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is."

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics"

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics



Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes: "Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid."

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.