Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Bird, Alarms

• Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?
  Answer: That is bird poop, too.

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  White, Bird, Poop

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.127, Penguin

• 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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  Nature, Philosophy, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

• It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

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  Intelligent, Bird, Slaughterhouse Five

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

• They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

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  Thinking, Sight, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.86, Dial Press

• And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

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  Bird, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

• I wish we had all been born birds instead.

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  Creativity, Bird, Wish

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.224, Penguin

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