Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hipster, Religion, Different

  "A Man Without a Country: A Memoir Of Life In George W Bush's America". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Success, Kings, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 17, 2015

• Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cancer, Lakes, Community

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Relief, Literature, Realizing

• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Alcohol, Slaughterhouse Five

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.129, Infobase Publishing

• People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, People, Church

  Kurt Vonnegut (1981). “Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage”

• Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Speak, Disappear

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

• Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life Changing, Slaughterhouse Five, Trying

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.19, Infobase Publishing

• It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Blessing, Literature

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “Vonnegut by the Dozen”, p.21, The Nation Co. LP

• To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

• I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Mind

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

• All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Slaughterhouse Five, Literature

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

• And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Molecules, Literature, Disease

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.210, Dial Press

• Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Parent, Literature, Cradle

• My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Book

  Source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Literature, Score

• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part Three". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.mcsweeneys.net. September 18, 2002.

• Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Definitions, Argument

  Source: artisticactivism.org

• I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Book

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.140, Melville House

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