Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - Page 2

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• About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

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  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2001). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... 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.

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  Wise, Hate, Men

  "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.

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• A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 05, 2014

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

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  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

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  Two, Trout, Purpose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

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  God, Proof, Existence

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• Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

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  Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Bitterness

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• Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

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  Summer, Baby, Hipster

  "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

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• So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

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  Thinking, People, Survival

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

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• I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

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  Grandchildren, Looks, Apologizing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.79, RosettaBooks

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• Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

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  Weed, Stress, Marijuana

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• Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

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  Life Changing, Dancing, Lessons

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  There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

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  Nuts, President, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Science is magic that works.

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  Magic

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.218, Dial Press

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• Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

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  Apology, Drunk, Environmental

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• I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

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  Time, Nice, Smart

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

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• Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

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  War, Artist, Men

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• And 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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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• Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

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  Exercise, Laughing, Jogging

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

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  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

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  War, Thinking, Sick

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• We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

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  Animal, Thinking, Environmental

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

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• The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

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  Secret, Endeavor, Concentration

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• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

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  Funny, Mad, Water

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