61 result(s) for Kurt Vonnegut Quotes.
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been'."
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
"The only evidence of God's existence is that God too gets the willies."
"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."
"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."
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
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"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."
"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
"Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."
"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves."
"All lovers are deranged."
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable."
"Saying 'I'm sorry' doesn't alter anything; saying 'I forgive you' does."
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
"Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
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"We'd all have done much better if Jesus had left us out of it."
"It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters."
"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
"Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
"Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style."
"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found."
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind."
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
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"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. 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 a miracle."
"I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
"All this happened, more or less."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'"
"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
"So it goes."
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
"I tell you, we are here to go."
"I am a human being, an American, a novelist, a Midwesterner. One of my problems is that taking human beings for granted is something I am very good at."
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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