Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 18

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• The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Mad, Serious

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• I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plot, Fiction, Losing

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• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

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  Dog, Brother, War

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• Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

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  Writing, Should Have, Giving

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

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  May, Failing, Courtesy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Jailbird”, p.10, Random House

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• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

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  War, Gun, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

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• Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
  And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
  And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
  Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, World, Want

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

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  People, Problem, Wealth

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.144, Penguin

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• There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Beautiful, Book

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.

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  Wire, Junk, Yards

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Veterans Day, Want, Sacred Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• 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.

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  Memorable, Player, Government

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.135, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

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  Dog, Cat, Kids

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

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  School, People, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

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  Common Decency, Littles, Slapstick

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• Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

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  Father, Voice, Trout

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

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  Dust, Hands, Wind

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• If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

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  Would Be, Forgotten, Reasonable

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• My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

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  Dumb, Soul, Meat

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

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• If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

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  People, Tangled, Would Be

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• The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

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  Believe, Sea, Pirate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

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  Forever, Searching For Love, Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.97, Dial Press

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Lakes, Community

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

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• The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

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  Music, Proof, Needed

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.66, Seven Stories Press

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• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

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  Punishment, Afterlife, Expectations

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