Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, Writing

• If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hurt, Art, Writing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.49, Penguin

• So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Zero, New York, Cities

• I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, College

• Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, Kids, Parent

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Parent, Literature, Cradle

• I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Names, Parent

• This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Echoes, Parent

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