I am eternally grateful for my knack o... - Kurt vonnegut - Quotes.Pub

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

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Kurt vonnegut Quotes

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can’t anymore.

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

People hate it when they’re tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it’s a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Real Quotes

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo.

I wish you’d help me look into a more interesting problem – namely, my sanity.

Just because we think we’re so wonderful doesn’t mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Don’t worry about your father. He’s a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn’t add new and useful information, it should be removed.

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